The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities." ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

An Orlando startup called Wriggle Brew is pioneering a unique approach to two major environmental problems: plastic pollution ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the world recycles plastic. Instead of requiring tedious sorting, the catalyst ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...

Globally, an estimated eight million tons of spent coffee grounds are discarded annually, mostly ending up in landfills.