Muriel Williman, senior assistant solid waste manager for disposal with the City of Durham, wants Durhamites to be more careful about what they put in the recycling bin. Credit: Photo by Lena Nguyen — ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have achieved a major breakthrough in plastic recycling, using electricity and chemical reactions to break down bottles and other ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

Those plastic bottles you toss right after using them? They can be upcycled into actually useful items in your kitchen, from ...

A catalytic process developed by researchers at Peking University is transforming how the plastics industry approaches PET ...

After your recycling is picked up from the curb, what happens to it? One potential landing spot may be right under your feet.

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

Discover how Niagara Bottling is advancing bottle-to-bottle recycling with its newly acquired rPET packaging facility in ...