Technology

New research out of Germany holds promise for high-accuracy optical sorting of black plastics at reasonable costs.

NASA plans to experiment with interstellar plastics recycling, and a town in British Columbia says a fee on bags is...

Labels and packaging company Avery Dennison has expanded the options available to converters and brand owners looking to put recycling-friendly...

Tissue manufacturer Cascades will open a $64 million operation outside of Portland, Ore. to produce both virgin and recycled-content tissues...

Ikea releases products made with recycled plastics, and Rhode Island adopts standardized public bin signage to boost recovery efforts. Recycled-content...

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Due to challenging market conditions and technology constraints, the Atlanta division of secondary plastics recovery company QRS has declared bankruptcy....

Instead of using a tipping trailer to empty containers full of resin, A-Ward makes a container unloader that can get...

Through its use of a catalyst in a patented process, a Canadian company is recycling PE and PP into a...

A European Union panel has approved the use of Starlinger de-contamination technology to recycle post-consumer PET into 100 percent-recycled-content food...