A look back at the year’s top articles on recycling innovations, sustainability strategies, and circular economy practices in ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

European equipment maker says its new polyolefin recycling and regrind system can handle a wide variety of plastic scrap infeed materials. The Intarema 2325 T-VEplus RegrindPro, which the company says ...

Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested. By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked.

The Lund researchers said the treaty could set up a system that allocates production allowances for primary plastics to the countries signing the treaty. Companies would then buy those allowances ...

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New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

set up a third-party “mass balance” auditing system for tracking the effectiveness of chemical recycling and require a national study on the relative greenhouse gas contributions from plastic ...

However, the research highlights that plastics’ impacts are interconnected, destabilizing the Earth system in ways previously overlooked. “The impacts of plastics on the Earth system are complex and ...

Since dolphins and humans inhale similar plastic particles, dolphins may be at risk for the same lung problems. As top predators with decades-long life spans, bottlenose dolphins help scientists ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a Roundtable on Plastics that will provide a forum for examining issues associated with national efforts to reduce plastic ...