These building blocks are as good as the building blocks ... opportunities for packaging manufacturers to access more recycled plastic for a wider variety of end-use applications.

In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem ... monomers—the essential building blocks of plastics. Researchers believe these monomers could then be recycled or upcycled into ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that ...

The world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic each year of which only 9% is recycled. Plastic which does not decompose is a significant driver of climate change and has been found in the ...

Unlike aluminum or glass, the plastic that can be recycled rarely results in replacing ... Alterra converts "plastics back into their original building blocks to produce new plastics and other ...