As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and bags. But as these bins fill up quicker and quicker each ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

Xycle, a plastics recycling startup based in the Netherlands, has secured financing to fund the construction of its first commercial-scale plant, with the funds coming from a combination of equity ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Alterra Plastics wants to build a plastics recycling facility at 42 Tomhicken Rd. in the township. Alterra would truck in discarded plastic from the tri-state area, melt it down and ...

Opposition to plastics recycling innovation is still a problem. A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about what was then a new roadblock on its path to plastics circularity: public opposition to ...

Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.

Experts identify multiple interlinked reasons why recycling is failing: Inefficient recycling plants – Processes such as ...