Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. View on ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

Researchers from Tsinghua University in China said the rate of recycling had barely budged even as plastic production had ...

Only 9.5% of plastic materials produced globally in 2022 were manufactured from recycled materials. The findings, reported in Communications Earth & Environment, are part of a comprehensive analysis ...

Analysis also finds that only 9% of the hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic produced ends up being recycled.

Marine biologist Richard Thompson was out looking at barnacles in tide pools one morning in 1993 when he started noticing small pieces of plastic ...

Nexergy Holdings PLC is establishing a new technology incubator at the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) at Middlesbrough, ...

The stated purpose of Trump’s import levies is to draw production back to the U.S. from around the world. Benzene illustrates ...

Li-Cycle, International Recycling Group and Redwood Materials all received commitments from the federal agency. But a ...