The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

A pilot plant built to develop PVC recycling technology is going online at Solvay's site in Tavaux , France. The European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers has invested more than $3 million in the ...

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 ...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics ...

Ineos’s Inovyn polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business has started up two pilot plants at its R&D center in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium, to test a solvent dissolution process for recycling PVC. Inovyn says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...