Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

An analyst with the Boston-based research firm says tonnage outputs at installed plastic pyrolysis systems largely are disappointing. The senior analyst of Lux Research says his own company’s forecast ...

A well-known international group conducted rigorous worldwide evaluations on both domestic and international suppliers in the ...

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...

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Outside a hulking, beige structure shaped like a barn, a few miles northeast of downtown Tyler, Karen Combs spots something glossy and red on a gloomy January afternoon. “There was your Skittles,” she ...

Two years after walking away from a proposed pyrolysis plant to process plastic waste in Georgia, Brightmark LLC is once again looking to develop such a facility in that state. This time, the San ...

Xycle, a plastics recycling startup based in the Netherlands, has secured financing to fund the construction of its first commercial-scale plant, with the funds coming from a combination of equity ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...