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

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have successfully transformed common plastic waste into a high-value precursor for Parkinson’s disease medication.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to convert a chemical building block of ...

Scientists have found a new way to make a Parkinson's drug – out of old plastic. The plastic is polyethylene terephthalate (or PET), widely used in plastic bottles and other packaging, and now deeply ...

During February’s Plastics Recycling Conference, NAPCOR Executive Director Laura Stewart dove into her organization’s annual ...

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

Two startups are collaborating with pharmacies to distribute recyclable pill bottles that reduce healthcare’s single use of ...

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 ...

While recycled resins are somewhat sheltered from the petrochemicals storm centered in the Middle East, the markets continue ...

Researchers have developed electrochemical methods that break down waste PET plastic, the material in most disposable water ...