Lorain County’s plastic bag recycling contest kept nearly 300 pounds out of landfills and rewarded schools with recycled ...

Researchers in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Chemical Engineering and at the University of Akron have ...

This new technology could significantly improve recycling outcomes. Researchers make groundbreaking discovery that could ...

The St. Louis-based packaging firm says it diverted 500 tons of expanded polystyrene (EPS) plastic from landfills last year.

The Lorain County Solid Waste Management District’s Plastic Bag Recycling Collection Contest successfully diverted hundreds of pounds of plastic grocery bags from landfills, the district reported.

Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern. On August 19, a coalition of environmental ...

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The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...