Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large proportions of plastic waste don't get recycled. Westend61 via Getty Images Plus In 1950, global plastic production was ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUNICH, May 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At IFAT Munich 2026, Vary Tech, a global leader in solid waste resource utilization, ...

ProPublica finds advanced recycling techniques are not matching mechanical recycling’s rate of converting discarded plastic into new plastic. For genuine circularity, investments in mechanical ...

Dr. Byungwook Hwang's research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

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 ...

Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany—Diversified German chemicals and plastics producer BASF A.G. is investing in a fellow German company that specializes in waste tire pyrolysis, with an eye toward using pyrolysis ...

A young man from Alabama named Julian Brown learned that plastic is made from fossil fuels instead of milk proteins or ...

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ANSONIA, Conn.—Mixing technology and compounding systems specialist Farrel Pomini is investing in a U.K. waste tire pyrolysis company to create a solid platform to close the tire recycling loop. The ...