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 ...

Every day, around a thousand tons of recycled materials are dumped into towering piles at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility (MRF). This state-of-the-art facility on Brooklyn’s waterfront ...

If you've been crushing cans of seltzer an at-home carbonator can slash your monthly spend. Before you hulk-smash another can, read this and learn why it's better to just leave it alone. So you think ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

The Recycling Operations Center (ROC) is an intermediate step in the recycling process between campus buildings and the end markets for recycling. The goal of the ROC is to sort everything to its best ...

European company’s automated equipment and technology is helping Visy sort glass for recycling in Australia, with a second system on order. “We take pride in Redwave’s significant contribution to ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

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 ...

German metal recycling company Gerhard Lang Recycling GmbH has installed an Autosort Pulse unit from Tomra Recycling, also based in Germany, at its metals sorting plant in southwestern Germany as part ...