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Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

On trails in Grand Canyon National Park, I mostly pick up empty water bottles. It seems a job that will never be obsolete. Shouldn’t we have learned by now that refilling water bottles is the way ...

About 70 percent of PVC goes to building and construction uses such as pipes, cables, siding, window and door profiles, flooring, fencing, decking and roofing. The low-cost, easy-to-install products ...

Lorain County’s plastic bag recycling contest kept nearly 300 pounds out of landfills and rewarded schools with recycled ...

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While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. The roads of the future could be paved with plastic Stanford researchers show the viability of recycled plastic in construction. These ...

The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating. In 2024, only 9% of plastic waste was recycled globally, while 91% of plastic waste is believed to not be recycled. Even worse, the ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...