Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

A sustainable future means that there have to be drastic changes in design or disposal processes. Recycling of plastics is a process in manufacturing where, instead of being landfilled, products are ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

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 ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

At a nondescript industrial facility near Louisville’s airport, advanced sorting machines, 40 conveyor belts and a team of workers sift through thousands of tons of recycling every month. Loaders feed ...

National Harbor, Md. — This isn't 2014, and The Recycling Partnership is not interested in acting like it is. The nonprofit curbside recycling advocacy group has now been around 11 years under current ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...