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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

Honda R&D Co. Ltd., headquartered in Waco, Japan, has developed a new chemical sorting technology designed to sort and extract reusable plastics from waste plastic parts that contain solid ...

Requirement 2: Both thesis and non-thesis students will pick from one of the following Certificate programs and fulfill their required courses as an area of specialization (some of the certificate ...

Cyclyx International, which describes itself as a consortium focused on discarded plastic innovations, headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has partnered with Texas-based ExxonMobil and the ...

The BioRhythm product was developed by capstone design students to help sort plastics into trash, recycling and compost at large events. Engineering seniors and graduate students put their skills to ...

Plastics are…complicated. Can new recycling methods clean them up? This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

MOTALA, SwedenMOTALA, Sweden — A new plastics sorting facility inaugurated in Sweden on Wednesday is being billed as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging ...