A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A three-year research project involving scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and LUT University has found a ...

Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia have created a chitosan-nickel composite film that gains up to 50% more tensile strength when soaked in water, flipping the central ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we ...

is your neighborhood reporter San Patricio and Aransas County. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Dynamo Cycle president Danny Clark says the plastic shortage has been felt in the Coastal Bend, along with a 15 ...

Researchers have successfully synthesized fumarate (fumaric acid), a raw material for unsaturated polyester resin, by combining carbon dioxide (CO2) with pyruvate (derived from biomass), using two ...

Plastics have a lot of properties that have made them fixtures of modern societies. They can be molded into any shape we’d like, they’re tough yet flexible, and they come in enough variations that we ...