A crushed bottle zips along a crowded conveyor belt, and in a split second, a puff of air blasts it into a pile of plastics.

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

Wondering what to recycle and what not to recycle in your curbside bins? This recycling guide can help.

India-based Steer World is offering what it calls a first-of-its-kind method to recycle crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) plastic using its custom Omega Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology. PEX is used in ...

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A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

If you ask Mattia Bernini, plastic is not the problem; it’s how many plastic products are made. Bernini is Design Director at Precious Plastic — a free, open-source, plastic-recycling system based on ...

Do you know which items can and can't be recycled? Make our world greener this Earth Day by identifying which items are ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...