Bright Green Plastics, a plastics reprocessing business that’s based in the U.K., has invested 750,000 pounds into the development of a new plastics sorting plant, which will be fully operational by ...

A pre-conference workshop at Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show in late June addressed advances in optical sorting technology for separating and sorting plastics. Workshop ...

Plastics are everywhere. They’re in our yogurt cups, grocery bags, shampoo bottles, and even the clingy wrap around last night’s leftovers. And almost all of them are made from a family of plastics ...

Sweden unveiled a groundbreaking, high-tech plastic sorting plant called "Site Zero." The facility presents new methods for combating plastic waste. Like its namesake implies, it aims to boost ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

When most of us walk out of the grocery store, we end up leaving with a lot of plastic packaging. And when it comes time to recycle that packaging, things may get confusing. NPR's Rebecca Davis visits ...

Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more efficient? A review article by ...

MOTALA, Sweden (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...