That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Plastic waste scavenged from river channels and dump sites in Kenya. Tony Karuma / AFP via Getty Images The DOE’s chemical recycling initiatives are part of a long series of government attempts ...

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I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

PolyCycl produces virgin-quality recycled polymers that meet the stringent standards required for food-contact and ...

Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false ...

Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our growing ...

The European Commission has approved a €500-million French scheme to support chemical recycling in the packaging industry.

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

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