Researchers at the university in New York have combined four detection methods in an attempt to measure recycled content in a ...

A new tool accurately detects the amount of recycled plastic in a container and strengthens environmental oversight.

UB researchers want to provide regulators and others a quick and reliable way to assess sustainability claims.

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups: "This ...

Researchers use AI and advanced sensors to verify recycled plastic content with over 97% accuracy in consumer products ...

A shutdown at a high-profile film recycling project in Texas makes clear what everyone knows: It's very difficult to succeed in that business. Recycling rigid plastics is already hard, struggling ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Recycled plastic pellets can release a hidden mix of over 80 chemicals into water, disrupting hormones and fat metabolism in zebrafish larvae. Researchers warn that unknown and toxic additives make ...