Solvay SA and Kobelco Eco-Solutions have signed a joint venture agreement with a view to set up an industrial unit of Solvay’s Vinyloop Polyvinyl Chloride recycling process in Japan, under the name ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

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 ...

The facility, which can process up to 38,000 tonnes of plastic annually, is set to open this year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

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 ...

When former top Environmental Protection Agency official Judith Enck noticed a cavalcade of chemical and plastics industry ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...