UB chemical engineering researchers are working to advance a recycling process to separate individual types of plastics from ...

Editor’s Note: Film and flexible packaging will be featured in sessions at the 2026 Plastics Recycling Conference, Feb. 23-25 in San Diego, California. Register now! Two industry groups this week ...

A breakthrough technology that uses carbon dioxide instead of water solves one of the biggest challenges in plastic recycling — turning used polyolefin packaging films into clean, food-safe materials.

Once seen as a solution to the plastic waste problem, the process has been plagued by economic and technological difficulties ...

The University of Nevada, Reno campus has new drop-off bins for recycling various plastic wrappings and packaging, known as plastic films. The Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) team and their waste ...

In October 2023, Mura Technology launched its groundbreaking HydroPRS plant in Teesside, designed to tackle the challenge of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC ...

A plastic drink bottle dropped into a recycling bin rarely comes back as another bottle. It is far more likely to be shredded ...

NEW YORK — Soft, stretchy plastics can make up grocery bags, bubble wrap and more. They're impossible to avoid and harder still to properly dispose of. If thrown in the trash, they can take up to ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has been running a pilot program in Arizona to bring more discarded films and wrap into the recycling loop. By compressing lightweight, loose plastic film into dense, ...