A report released May 31, 2016, by the Plastics Division of the Washington-based American Chemistry Council finds the main technologies used in modern recycling plants, known as material recovery ...

Jake Westerhof, vice president, corporate strategy, for Toronto-based Canada Fibers/Urban Resource Group calls himself “a MRF (material recovery facility) guy.” That is because, as he told attendees ...

Polymer chemists have been finding ways to tackle the environmental problems humans have created with plastics waste. Now, a team has come up with fundamental new chemistry that seeds a creative ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

From 31 March 2026, a major change is being introduced across councils in England to standardise what is accepted in kerbside ...