"This pioneering project is setting a new industry standard, truly changing how PET food trays are recycled and speeding up ...
More than 10 years ago, Dave Hakkens, a then-student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released a free, replicable design for a plastic recycling machine, Euronews reported. This design was made ...
Supporters say the Recycling Technology Innovation Act, backed by ACC, would streamline permitting and strengthen domestic ...
Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...
Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...
“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...
A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the time it takes you to read this sentence—say, four seconds—the world produces ...