The transition toward a circular economy relies heavily on the mechanical capability to process diverse waste streams into ...

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

You probably know someone — maybe it’s you — who hates to throw away yogurt cups, plastic bags, old phone chargers and all ...

Redwood Materials' new smart recycling bins can detect, sort and pack old batteries and gadgets with minimal human ...

At the Idaho National Laboratory, scientists are pioneering ways to extract critical materials from recycled waste products. Critical materials are ...

Perhaps fittingly, state lawmakers are recycling proposals if not actual legislation from last year as they address how to encourage the recycling of more packaging and reduce the amount of waste that ...

New items should be clean and empty and placed in mixed recycling bins, according to the new guidelines. From March 2027, ...

We talk to the author of a new book about why the problem is so hard to solve. By David Gelles But the case against the California attorney general, prompted by his lawsuit over Exxon’s plastic ...

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