Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

For years, people have been trying to find the best ways to recycle plastic. "We've heard a lot in the news about plastic ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

Georgia Tech researchers used a device to test the reliability and strength of chopped-up sheets of recycled plastic. The video shows several stages as the plastic is torn apart, from initial ...

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But ...

For WUWM's "Beats Me" series, a listener asked which plastics are recyclable in Wisconsin. Turns out, it varies depending on ...

Recycling bags in Mecklenburg County is a little different after county leaders took action in response to a Channel 9 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...