In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

New bill aims to boost plastic recycling by removing regulatory barriers that have slowed industry investment and growth ...

The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty Images) When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon ...

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Studies show that the overall recycling rate for all plastics is under 10 percent, and that number is likely much lower for plastic bags since they can't be put in into recycling bins ...

Exclusive: Cove has developed a fiber-based bottle platform that is designed to be recycled like paper. They plan to make ...

The company says “char,” a byproduct of its chemical recycling process, is being commercialized under the Tacfiller name and can reduce carbon emissions. Plastic Energy's Tacfiller, a byproduct of its ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Aimplas, the Plastics Technology Centre, a Spain-based technological center that provides solutions to the plastics industry, has developed a demonstrator that simulates the digital passport for ...