BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

When it comes to plastics sorting, one of the most technologically advanced companies is the U.K.’s Eco Plastics Ltd., based in Hemswell, in the county of Lincolnshire. The company specializes in ...

Honda R&D Co. Ltd., headquartered in Waco, Japan, has developed a new chemical sorting technology designed to sort and extract reusable plastics from waste plastic parts that contain solid ...

Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

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