Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

MIT engineers turn plastic waste into strong building parts that could solve housing crisis and reduce environmental impact ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. The ...

Researchers found a way to turn plastic waste into the main ingredient in vinegar using sunlight and a simple iron based ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them. But are they doing more harm than good?

The plant is estimated to transform up to 30,000 tonnes of plastic into 100 percent recycled bottles every year.