HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech are exploring processes that might greatly increase the recycling of one of the world's most-produced plastics. Ph.D. candidate Adam McNeeley and his advisor, Alumni ...

Clariant, Borealis and SINTEF demonstrate technology that converts plastic waste into steam cracker feedstock for polyolefins ...

Sorting plants in recycling usually do not recognize black plastic, which is why it is sorted out instead of being recycled.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull ...

Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste.

ALBANY — Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth ...