More than 10 years ago, Dave Hakkens, a then-student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released a free, replicable design for a plastic recycling machine, Euronews reported. This design was made ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

India-based Steer World is offering what it calls a first-of-its-kind method to recycle crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) plastic using its custom Omega Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology. PEX is used in ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

Investments in chemical recycling, reverse vending machines and informational apps all are seeking to raise the plastic recycling rate. Some 30 million metric tons of discarded plastic packaging is ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Paragon Films receives the APR Recycling Leadership Honorable Mention for outstanding utilization of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.