We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

The plastic lifecycle currently emits more than 0.85 gigatons of greenhouse gases. If current plastic production and consumption patterns continue, emissions could reach 1.34 gigatons per year by 2050 ...

Juno, a recycling technology pioneered by Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific (GP), has begun processing waste from King County, Washington, as the municipality has starting exploring opportunities to ...

Accra was buzzing on the evening of 4 December, as stakeholders from across the plastics value chain. Policymakers, recyclers, grassroots waste-collectors, private-sector innovators, and civil-society ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Plastics are a problem that knows no boundaries. These ...