CHICAGO -- Studies show that the overall recycling rate for all plastics is under 10 percent, and that number is likely much lower for plastic bags since they can't be put in into recycling bins at ...

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 ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it’s sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People ...

Hilex Poly, Hartsville, S.C., a manufacturer of plastic bag and film products and the operator of plastic bag recycling facilities, has announced that it will officially open its newly expanded ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...