Plastic recycling process. One stumbling block to broader adoption of a circular economy is the low value of plastics recycled from mixed plastic scrap. The highest value is assigned to plastics that ...

Plastic scrap generation has slowed as is typical in the early part of each year, which is serving to increase or maintain pricing. “Availability is tight and pricing for scrap is steady to increasing ...

We're coming up on America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, and that means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release the latest official U.S. recycling numbers. For plastics, it's probably not ...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Sept. 11 it's adopted plastic waste management rules that it called "partial progress" on dealing with exporting of scrap within its 37 ...

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of DowDuPont Materials Science, through its participation in the Trash Free Seas Alliance ®, and in collaboration ...

Old plastic from scrapped cars can be converted into graphene by grinding it to dust and zapping it with high-voltage electricity, a process that could save large amounts of plastic from landfill.

WASHINGTON — Americans like to think they are recycling their plastic takeout food containers, cutlery and flimsy grocery bags when they toss them into those green or blue bins. But, too often, that ...