Bright Green Plastics, a plastics reprocessing business that’s based in the U.K., has invested 750,000 pounds into the development of a new plastics sorting plant, which will be fully operational by ...
Peer into a recycling bin and you'll almost certainly see a problem. Plastic trays, bottles, films all tangled together, ...
HANGZHOU, China, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Chinaplas 2026 international exhibition in Shanghai, DataBeyond, a global leader in intelligent sorting equipment, officially launched China's ...
Converting plastic-heavy automotive shredder residue into marketable materials can be assisted with electrostatic methods, according to a European technology provider. Color sorting when removing ...
Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...
Only around half of Americans have easy access to curbside recycling. For some others, recycling might mean bringing old bottles and boxes to an inconvenient drop-off site—and for still others, there ...
Plastics are…complicated. Can new recycling methods clean them up? This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign ...
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First off, the robots can help sort the plastic that’s set aside for recycling. Second, the chemicals can help break down the plastics into valuable raw materials. The University at Buffalo in New ...