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Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Plastic recycling has fallen short. Only about 9% of all plastic is recycled globally, which sounds pretty bad until you compare it with textiles. Only 0.5% of those are recycled. One of the biggest ...

“Recycling is real, and we’re doing it here at Plastic Ingenuity in Madison, Wisconsin.” Those are the words of a dedicated employee at Plastic Ingenuity, where more than thirteen million pounds of ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

This new technology could significantly improve recycling outcomes. Researchers make groundbreaking discovery that could ...

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Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

The organization says its new report examines mechanical, dissolution and chemical recycling across key material streams.