Recycling plastics is challenging, but new technology could produce high-quality materials for car and computer components, all while helping tackle the pollution crisis. Discarded plastics, which can ...

A prototype sensor being developed by sensor manufacturer IDEC (Sunnyvale, CA) uses light to differentiate among three different types of plastic. Aimed at the recycling industry for accurately ...

The Mariana Islands Nature Alliance joined with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife last Nov. 3 at the American Memorial Park in Garapan to demonstrate to students and volunteers the differences in plastics ...

Recycled plastics are used to make prosthetic legs by a charity in Indonesia for people who can't afford them Recycling can sometimes be seen as a bit of a hassle, but separating different types of ...

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial worm gut to break down plastics, offering hope for a nature-inspired method to tackle ...

The bar is low, according to a new study, less than three sugar cubes worth could kill birds like Atlantic puffins, for ...

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 ...

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics, offering hope for a nature-inspired method to ...

Recycling can sometimes be seen as a bit of a hassle, but separating different types of plastic could help provide a person with a prosthetic leg. A new scheme is making that happen by reusing ...