(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alex Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Stout (THE CONVERSATION) Every week, millions of ...
Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...
In a memorandum of understanding with a plastics industry trade association called the American Chemistry Council, or ACC, the Energy Department pledged to “collaborate on the development of ...
Plastic is one of humanity's most useful inventions... and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it's easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed ...
The world has a plastic problem. The World Economic Forum shared that more than 460 million metric tons of the stuff are ...
Plastics recycling officials on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean expect to extend their efforts to harmonize recycling guidelines in an effort to boost recovery efforts. It's now about two-and-a-half ...
As technological advancements contribute to more facilities mechanically or chemically recycling film, lacking end markets ...