Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. By Lucy Hodgman, Capitol Bureau March 9, 2025 ...

A review article analyzes the latest methods in plastic recycling guided by process systems engineering approaches, including ...

Why plastic bottles are sparking fires at recycling plants A report found that there were at least 367 fires at recycling facilities in the U.S. and Canada in 2021.

Analysis and Environment Should we give up on recycling plastic? Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies could ...

You Would Be Surprised The plastic recycling rate in the U.S. is very low, but there are tricks to improving your own plastic accountability ISTOCK By Saabira Chaudhuri Oct. 19, 2024 5:30 am ET ...

Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, said Susan Collins, president of the Container Recycling Institute, a nonprofit group.

Oregon’s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, passed by the Legislature in 2021, officially took effect on July ...

Critics call it the plastics industry’s Project 2025. Tucked into a federal recycling bill is a litany of regulatory rollbacks and other industry-friendly provisions that federal agencies under ...

The move to recycling plastic is setting off a firestorm from local environmental and community groups who want a say in the future of the industrial site. But according to recent correspondence ...

Reporters placed plastic cold drink cups, embedded with trackers, into 57 labeled recycling bins at Starbucks locations across the country to see where the cups went. Only 36 provided reliable data.