A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

Honeywell signed equipment supply, production license, and warranty agreements with Biotrend Energy, Istanbul, Turkey, to build the country’s first commercialized advanced waste recycling plant using ...

Polymer chemists have been finding ways to tackle the environmental problems humans have created with plastics waste. Now, a team has come up with fundamental new chemistry that seeds a creative ...

Yale is implementing a new series of recycling signs across campus to help combat the ever-growing issue of waste contamination. This effort aims to improve waste collection by making it easier for ...

Eni’s chemical company Versalis has launched a demonstration plant at its Mantua site, Italy, showcasing the Hoop technology for the chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste. This proprietary ...

Only a fraction of the material that could be turned into new plastic is currently recycled. Researchers have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials ...

Cornell’s annual Beyond Waste Campaign, which spanned from Feb. 14 to March 31 this year, is an initiative run by the Campus Sustainability Office that aims to create awareness, action and community ...

Jake Westerhof, vice president, corporate strategy, for Toronto-based Canada Fibers/Urban Resource Group calls himself “a MRF (material recovery facility) guy.” That is because, as he told attendees ...