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

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute says mechanical recycling of plastic offers climate benefits.

Our process breaks down commercial plastics, including polystyrene and high- and low-density polyethylene, so recycled material can be seamlessly integrated into new products. “Our extraction process ...

Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one ...

But there's a problem with PET. While this type of plastic can be recycled multiple times in ideal conditions, it degrades over time. The number of times PET can be recycled depends on how the ...

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental ... interested in changing the types of subunits in the polymer chain and rearranging them to see whether they can create high-performance ...

It's easy to recycle and is one of the ... first studies to show how microplastics can affect breast cancer in humans. Polypropylene is a type of plastic used to make everything from food ...