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For decades, recycling plastic has been a losing game — too slow, too expensive, and too limited in scope. Most methods rely on high-heat extrusion and mechanical separation, degrading the material ...

Plastic pollution could double its harm to human health in the coming decades if current production trends continue, ...

Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

Plastic is everywhere. From water bottles and food containers to household items and packaging, modern life depends heavily ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

Researchers document widespread plastic burning in homes worldwide, driven by energy poverty, poor waste services, and limited fuel options.

Researchers warn that plastic production and emissions are driving a rising global health burden, measured in millions of lost healthy years.

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...