Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

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 breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

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, ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

National Harbor, Md. — This isn't 2014, and The Recycling Partnership is not interested in acting like it is. The nonprofit curbside recycling advocacy group has now been around 11 years under current ...

Let’s face it: the public doesn’t believe in recycling anymore. Despite billions of dollars spent on the rollout of citywide recycling programs and public awareness campaigns, only 43 percent of ...

An initial attempt to highlight plastics recycling to the American public drew "thousands" of participants in May, according to the Association of Plastic Recyclers. APR's first Recycling In Action ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...