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 ...

Plastics recycling is evolving but still faces major challenges as material types are more varied and complex than ever. This complexity often creates issues in sorting, making it difficult for ...

European technology provider Stadler has helped equip a 100,000-ton-per-year plastics sorting facility for Iren SpA in Turin, Italy. Stadler says the new sorting plant “integrates innovative solutions ...

TerraCycle takes the items that local recycling centers cannot recycle, from razors to food wrappers to Swiffer pads. Here's ...

PLC (NASDAQ:SMX)(NASDAQ:SMXWW), a global pioneer in digitizing physical objects for a circular economy, today announced the ...

Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, the insulation in your home, and even the parts of your phone.

National Harbor, Md. — Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled. But getting this ...

For DW reporter Wacera Ngunjiri, moving from Nairobi to Berlin for a while didn’t change her morning routine—but it did introduce her to some new aspects of sustainable living. Jogging through the ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

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 ...