According to Mordor Intelligence, the plastic waste management market size stood at USD 48.10 billion in 2025 and is expected ...

The Recycling Partnership’s (TRP’s) Polypropylene Recycling Coalition has released its inaugural annual report, showcasing what it calls “measurable improvement” in the circularity of polypropylene ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 27, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively simple: ...

The escalating environmental and economic challenges posed by plastic waste have spurred a diversity of research into advanced recycling technologies. This field encompasses a range of approaches—from ...

Research at West Virginia University is exploring whether microwave technology can recover high yields of propylene from polypropylene plastic scrap. Research by Yuxin Wang (pictured) at West Virginia ...

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

As part of a €40 million grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)'s ...

Scientists at University of Edinburgh engineered bacteria to convert plastic bottles into L-DOPA, a Parkinson's medication, ...

PRAIA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- In Sao Francisco, on the outskirts of Cape Verde's capital Praia, a community recycling project is turning waste into school desks and chairs, helping improve classroom ...