Researchers from Georgia Tech have created a material inspired by seashells to help improve the process of recycling plastics ...

The producer of durable shipping products reuses tens of millions of pounds of plastic each year, mostly high density ...

Of the record volumes of plastic being produced, less than 10% is made into something new. Is it time to rethink recycling?

After 48 hours, 80 out of 84 compounds were found at concentrations higher than after just 24 hours. The longer plastic sits in water, the more chemicals it releases. The most abundant chemical ...

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There isn’t a definitively timeline of when recycled electronic-waste started to be incorporated into black plastic products specifically, but e-waste started to get recycled in the early 2000s ...

Most plastic products, by contrast, can be reprocessed only once — if at all — by turning them into lower quality products that are eventually destined for the trash bin.

That’s because the naphtha created using recycled plastic is contaminated. Manufacturers add all kinds of chemicals to make products bend or keep them from degrading in the sun.

The products in your kitchen that are made of black plastic, such as a spatula, could contain high levels of flame retardants and other toxic chemicals.

On display was a case of Heinz baked beans, packaged in “39% recycled plastic*.” (The asterisk took me down an online rabbit hole about certification and circularity.