AI and spectroscopy enhance plastic recycling sorting accuracy and efficiency for sustainable manufacturing practices.

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Two volunteers with Haw River Assembly, Halle Amick and Chris Preheim., cleaning out a ...

In this video, we explore methods for identifying different types of plastic, focusing on elastomers, thermosetting plastics, and thermoplastics, along with the Resin ID codes (recycling symbols) when ...

Rick Demko has more than 16 years of recycling plant leadership, enduring historic challenges such as the economic crash of 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic and continually navigating volatility ...

Several new projects turn waste into food for microbes that create PHA, a type of plastic that fully decomposes on its own, offering a less costly alternative to current bioplastics. This fork made of ...

One way to reduce plastic pollution in the environment is to identify different types of plastic to guarantee efficient waste management. Plastics are one of the most widely utilized products globally ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The ...

WAKO, Japan, June 4 (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and ...

MICHAEL PHELAN, a famous billiards player and supplier, lamented in 1858 that the growing popularity of the game had made the ivory needed for the balls scarce and costly. “If any inventive genius ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. The microplastics project is funded by the “Meet the Moment” initiative of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.