Much plastic waste is soiled and composed of several different layers, making it too complex for the usual recycling method ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies ...

International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from ...

A large blue whale sculpture has been unveiled at London's Canary Wharf as a reminder of the millions of tonnes of plastic ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

IRG cites Trump tariffs and the hold-up of a federal loan guarantee as reasons for canceling plans for a plastics recycling ...

Plastic Back's innovative low-temperature chemical recycling technology converts hard-to-recycle plastics like PVC into ...

Li-Cycle, International Recycling Group and Redwood Materials all received commitments from the federal agency. But a ...

The company had planned to recycle 160,000 tons of plastic waste a year and turn about 20,000 tons of it into a new product ...