Found in everything from mattresses and furniture to shoes and sponges, PUR foam has long been a recycling challenge, ...

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The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

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 ...

If innovation had a lab soundtrack, it wouldn’t be a triumphant drumroll—it would be the quiet hum of “try again.” Dow’s ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities." ...

Plans to build the UK's first large-scale plastic film recycling facility have been announced. Endolys Ltd has pledged to invest up to £120m in the region after taking over the former Cleveland Bridge ...

Wriggle Brew is an Orlando-based startup that is taking a unique approach to tackling both harmful fertilizer runoff and ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...