[Jason Knight], an intern at FabLab RUC, has worked hard for 9 months to make a sheet plastics shredder for HDPE and LDPE from things like plastic bags, bubble wrap and air cushion packaging with the ...

From electronic scrap to bulk shipping bags, shredders are finding new roles in the globally expanding plastic recycling sector. Big bags, also known as FIBCs, are usually made of polypropylene and ...

The European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which comes into effect this August, sets clear targets for the use of recycled materials in newly created forms of packaging.

Many paper packages contain a hidden plastic coating that improves performance but makes recycling much more difficult.

[Brogan M Pratt] and his students do a lot of 3D printing, and as such found themselves producing a lot of plastic waste. Seeing an opportunity, they built a bike-powered plastic shredder that turns a ...

Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method that uses only water and oxygen to break down durable plastics such as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about businesses creating a more sustainable economic system. The pervasiveness of plastic has become a global concern. An ...

Efforts to combat plastic waste have gotten derailed by the divide over chemical recycling.

PREDICTION INTERDICTION: New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Kalshi, doubling down on her office’s opposition to ...

A study from the University of Manchester into the effects of polymer cross-contamination on the outcome of mechanically ...