Found in everything from mattresses and furniture to shoes and sponges, PUR foam has long been a recycling challenge, ...

The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as ...

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 ...

MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

Gamini Mendis, assistant professor of plastics engineering technology, in the plastics lab at Penn State University's Behrend campus. A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in ...

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At Austin Resource Recovery in Texas, styrofoam is densified so it can be recycled. While hot, the gooey substance looks like octopus arms squeezing out of a machine. “From here we take these, and we ...

Solvent-based recycling and AI could lead to cleaner, smarter solutions for managing the world’s growing plastic problem. (CREDIT: Freepik) Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, ...

U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds is making a big move in the plastics market with its planned acquisition of Hillenbrand Inc., a global supplier of processing and recycling equipment.