PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet’s oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically. Chemical recycling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2026 were unveiled at the 10th anniversary Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) in Amsterdam. From ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

The Tire Recycling Foundation (TRF) announced the winners of its inaugural Circle of Change Awards, honoring projects that transform end-of-life tires ...

The recycling industry, traditionally seen as stable, is in an era of innovation and growth. A class of advanced recycling technologies is emerging to address plastics that conventional recycling ...

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dealt two substantial blows to efforts to turn waste plastics into useful products through advanced recycling techniques ...

For decades, the fossil fuel and plastics industries have pushed for “advanced recycling,” a technology that could be used to break down single-use plastics, but a report by an environmental nonprofit ...

Engineers have released a new report which examined advanced recycling. The report concluded that advanced recycling helps avoid climate impacts, reduces demand for energy resources, and offers key ...