Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to recycle together. A new generation of catalysts is starting to change that ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

How can existing systems be strengthened to recover more value, extend landfill life, and provide long-term cost stability?

A report released May 31, 2016, by the Plastics Division of the Washington-based American Chemistry Council finds the main technologies used in modern recycling plants, known as material recovery ...

Honeywell signed equipment supply, production license, and warranty agreements with Biotrend Energy, Istanbul, Turkey, to build the country’s first commercialized advanced waste recycling plant using ...

Waste plastics contain immiscible polymers, making recycling challenging. A new additive enables the thermal reprocessing of mixed plastics into recyclable, high-performance materials. A major ...

Dow and Innventure have announced a collaboration to develop and commercialize waste-to-value technologies aimed at converting mixed waste, particularly difficult-to-recycle plastics, into ...

Only a fraction of the material that could be turned into new plastic is currently recycled. Researchers have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials ...