In Portage County, people can recycle plastic containers marked with numbers 1, 2 or 5, but only if they meet specific ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the ...

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The escalating environmental and economic challenges posed by plastic waste have spurred a diversity of research into advanced recycling technologies. This field encompasses a range of approaches—from ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty Images) When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

The European Union has unveiled proposals to help the bloc's plastic recycling sector, which is struggling against ...

Diplomats negotiating guidelines for an international convention on hazardous wastes this month in Switzerland debated a new section on the “chemical recycling” of plastic debris fouling the global ...

Project participants say it has the potential to significantly contribute to the implementation of a circular plastic economy ...