North American prices for industrial recycled polystyrene regrind is expected to remain steady throughout 2024. According to sources in contact with Plastics News, the current chart for recycled ...

"We’re creating a market for these materials to be recycled at the end of the day. We’re increasing the longevity of these roads because rubber and plastic are very complimentary with asphalt ...

Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you ...

The plastics industry is backing new federal legislation that includes provisions favorable to chemical recycling and that would set a national standard of 30 percent recycled content in plastic ...

“The plastic tax has helped, but not enough,” he says. “If we had price stability for secondary plastics we would have a booming UK recycling sector.” Standard mechanical recycling works ...

So here's how to make better choices with the plastic we do use to help get more of it recycled. It's a complicated system, ...

The American Chemistry Council backs a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that would place a 30 percent recycled ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by ...

Prior to this new program, those wanting to dispose of those plastic grocery bags had to drop them off at supermarkets, which in turn would send them to specialty recycling centers. For those of ...

Is plastic recycling beyond fixing? California thinks so. On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued ExxonMobil, claiming the oil and petrochemical giant had engaged “in a decades-lon ...

New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers and retailers are doing it. The trouble is, many of these initiatives ...