Shoppers will have a fast and hygienic way to return their used beverage containers, and the machine will do the rest of the ...

While some dedicated people might already collect soft plastics to recycle at specialty facilities in a bag or eco-brick, a ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

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Recycling Technologies plans to place its first chemical recycling machine at Binn Eco Park, Perthshire, Scotland. Capable of recycling 7,000 metric tons (more than 7,700 short tons) per year of mixed ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

Waste pours into the world’s oceans at a rate of 12.7 million tons per year, and much of it is made up of plastics. With 40% of the world’s plastic being used for some kind of packaging, how products ...

The SOTOP Recycling team, consisting of Manuel Maeder, Benjamin Krause, and Nadina Maeder, have developed an innovative automated injection molding machine that uses waste plastic to create new ...

The military establishment's ever increasing reliance on technology and whiz-bang gadgetry impacts us as consumers, investors, taxpayers and ultimately as the defended. Our mission here is to bring ...

Consider the mix of materials that go into household appliances and automobiles. The good news, say researchers at Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne), is that over 95% of the over 50 million ...

Three German plastics associations told journalists on the eve of the K 2025 show that the plastics treaty could set global ...

The state also announced it was suing three other companies that it said illegally marketed their plastic bags as being ...