Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method ...

contributing to the global waste crisis. The low recycling rates are due to various factors, including the complexity of sorting and processing different types of plastics and the lack of ...

UTA chemists explain how plastic pyrolysis works to breaks down plastic waste into molecules that be used again ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ... 6.3 billion tons never made it to a recycling bin—a figure that stunned ...

Currently, plastic recycling is a failure ... That won’t bring about change overnight, but facts are stubborn things and they don’t go away. Given time, I suspect that the Global Plastic Treaty will ...

Ranjit Baxi introduced the concept of Global Recycling Day during his inaugural speech as president at the BIR's 2015 Dubai Convention. He expressed his vision and commitment to recycling. The first ...

After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades ... Meanwhile, in developed countries many domestic recycling programs have been halted because of the cost.

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers ... right side of history" and support a proposed Global Plastics Treaty "that will finally end the age of ...

more financing for waste management systems and increased recycling. But one policy approach emerged as most critical: a reduction in the total amount of global plastic production. That was the ...