Health concerns have been raised over plans to open the UK's first plastic film recycling facility. Endolys Ltd announced ...

In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in ...

Plastic waste could soon fuel clean technology, as scientists develop methods to transform discarded plastics into ...

MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global plastic processing machinery market report. This market research report also lists 29 other ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since a complete process step, pelletizing, is eliminated, the innovation ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption & Production. The escalating crisis of plastic waste has emerged as a significant environmental challenge, ...

U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds is making a big move in the plastics market with its planned acquisition of Hillenbrand Inc., a global supplier of processing and recycling equipment.

Waste conversion. A process that converts end-of-life plastics into carbon nanotubes is the subject of a patent application from Trimtabs Ltd. of Swansea, Wales. The patent application points out ...

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 ...

While a lot of people may be doing their part for the environment by sending their discarded plastic items off for recycling, the fact is that much of the plastic currently in use is non-recyclable.