Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

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Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

Dublin-based Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25714) has added Recycling of PVC and Mixed Plastic Waste to its product offering. The book ...

It’s time for some trash talk. That’s because some Lake County communities are beginning a new program impacting garbage collections. The Hefty ReNew program kicking off in October will be giving ...

Westlake Global Compounds and Marietta, Ohio-based Westlake Dimex, two business units of Houston-based Westlake Corp., have launched Choose Pink, a pilot polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling program ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee shop, it will be recycled ...