But this breakthrough doesn't stand alone; recent developments in plastic science and recycling include pyrolysis research to ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

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European nations voted Friday to allow for chemical recycling to play a larger role in the production of plastic bottles, ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern. On August 19, a coalition of environmental ...

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The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

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

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This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...