When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

If you toss anything you think is recyclable in your bin, it's time to stop that 'wish-cycling' habit because you're likely ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

A new treatment method for waste products generated in the aluminum smelting industry has been developed at Portland Aluminium, based in Victoria, Australia. The waste, spent pot lining has been the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Why toss cardboard into a bin when it could literally feed the earth beneath your feet? That plain brown box sitting in the corner holds more potential than most people ever realize, and it has ...