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 ...

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 ...

A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

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 ...

A study by Iowa State University researchers found that using industrial soap to clean plastic in recycling transferred ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 30, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively simple: ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

The facility, which can process up to 38,000 tonnes of plastic annually, is set to open this year.