A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the ...

Today, sustainability is defined as circularity, the ability to make a product and, at the end of its life, convert the ...

A team from Louisiana State University is reporting a “potential breakthrough” and estimates a new electromagnetic induction ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle discarded plastics into new materials with enhanced properties. This innovation not only offers a potential solution to the global plastic ...

VTT has announced the licensing of its mixed plastic recycling technology, Olefy, to US-based company Refinity, which ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

It uses no water and has fewer energy requirements than other recycling methods ... He said plastic bags are problematic for ...

We show how the oil, packaging and consumer goods industries spin the recycling fairytale ... it “Waste to Energy Recovery”. But in terms of CO2 emissions, burning plastic, which is made ...

"Priority goes to preventing the creation of waste in the first place, followed by preparing waste for reuse; to recycling, and then recovery ... use a lot of energy Crucially, plastic cannot ...