The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announces the second year of Recycling in Action—an initiative designed to show the public what happens after ...

Just a tiny fraction of the plastic Australia uses each year gets recycled. This year’s oil shock could cause a rethink.

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

The EPA is reconsidering air pollution regulations for chemical plastic recycling facilities, prompting concerns from ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

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 ...

A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.