MUMBAI — Bollywood actress and environmental advocate Dia Mirza has invested in a pioneering startup transforming unrecyclable plastic waste into high-quality circular materials, highlighting a model ...

Back in the 1980s, Mobile Chemical had a plant in Woodland that made plastic bags out on East Beamer Street. I took tours of the facility and was impressed by its efficiency. Workers would take ...

Recycling is one of the everyday actions people can take to help curb plastic waste, but the recycling industry still has room for improvement. Some plastic components, like polyolefins and polyvinyl ...

EPA dropped its call for a reduction in “unrecyclable” plastic products, sidestepping controversial questions on how it defines recyclability and recycling activities. EPA on Thursday published its ...

Two opposing perspectives on the future of plastic clashed at the United Nations summit on plastics, which ended this month in Busan, South Korea. Over 3,300 participants, representing 170 nations and ...

Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to recycle together. A new generation of catalysts is starting to change that ...