HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...
A sustainable future means that there have to be drastic changes in design or disposal processes. Recycling of plastics is a process in manufacturing where, instead of being landfilled, products are ...
A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...
NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 23, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively ...
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 ...
A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...
Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups: "This ...
Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...