Solvay SA and Kobelco Eco-Solutions have signed a joint venture agreement with a view to set up an industrial unit of Solvay’s Vinyloop Polyvinyl Chloride recycling process in Japan, under the name ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is durable and holds up against moisture and corrosion. That makes it a good plastic for pipes, construction material, and medical devices. But its high chlorine content also ...

A new pilot plant in Ohio, with the support of a trade group, aims to test a system to recycle PVC. A company called Plastic Back expects to commission the trial facility at Freepoint Eco-System LLC's ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Ineos’s Inovyn polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business has started up two pilot plants at its R&D center in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium, to test a solvent dissolution process for recycling PVC. Inovyn says ...

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...

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, ...

AI and spectroscopy enhance plastic recycling sorting accuracy and efficiency for sustainable manufacturing practices.

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American life. For the first time, plastic toothbrushes, bottles, kitchenware, and fu ...

The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...