Plastic is everywhere, though a relatively new product. It started with Bakelite, invented by Leo Baekeland in 1907 and used for electric insulators like distributor caps and light switches, and in ...

Living in the world’s most powerful consumer economy is a wonderful thing in many ways. But an underrecognized downside of American life is the reality that far too many products are discarded well ...

Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC), which operates over 2,600 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada under the Sears and Kmart brand formats, is taking significant steps ...

It’s no secret that when it comes to household-generated paper and plastics, the U.S. has a recovery problem. Recent reports, including those published by The Recycling Partnership (TRP), Washington, ...

Scientists in Singapore developed a single-reagent approach to recover silicon in recycled PV panels that reportedly offers high recovery rates compared to double-reagent methods. The recycled silicon ...

SALCHING, Germany—BMW and Encory have opened a new facility here to recycle batteries from electric vehicles.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - COVID-19 relief and recovery plans aimed at recycling and reusing more of the billions of tonnes of materials consumed each year could slash planet-heating emissions and ...

Recycling method The idea to recycle these particles came up during a team discussion about the high cost of wasted quantum dots. Dillon Downie, a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Photonics at the ...

Apple announced today a further investment in its recycling programs and related e-waste efforts, which includes an expansion of its recycling program for consumers and the announcement of a new, ...