Research

The Department of Energy's aptly named E-SCRAP prize program has awarded funds to companies engaged in hard drive disassembly, rare...

University researchers have come up with two new methods to break down plastic waste – one for reuse and the...

Although additives in plastics often are viewed as problematic, researchers at Cornell and Princeton universities have developed a technique to...

As artificial intelligence continues to ramp up, researchers said the computing-heavy tool could lead to skyrocketing volumes of end-of-life electronics...

A recent study has focused public attention on household products containing plastic that the authors suggest was recovered from electronics,...

A report from the International Energy Agency emphasized the "importance of unlocking the potential of recycling" and laid out policy...

Using insights from an AI-generated tool, a team of University of California researchers estimated that implementing four policies globally could...

Fewer than half of respondents in a new WM recycling survey knew which household products contain lithium-ion batteries — an...

A major recycled glass processor teamed up with a cosmetics giant to identify how cosmetics packaging is sorted in MRFs...

A group of researchers hopes to foster discussion and cooperation throughout the plastics value chain with their recent paper in...