Generally, you don't need to remove paper labels from metal or aluminum cans before you chuck them in the recycling bin. When ...

Recycling efforts have surged in the last two decades and are expected to continue to grow as people and businesses “dig ...

A new treatment method for waste products generated in the aluminum smelting industry has been developed at Portland Aluminium, based in Victoria, Australia. The waste, spent pot lining has been the ...

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 ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

A recent study has introduced a new method for recycling electronic waste, offering a promising solution to one of the most pressing environmental challenges today. Scientists have devised a process ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

The trio completed a semi-industrial trial of their "Rewind" PET process, demonstrating that polyester textile-to-textile ...

Several tens of tons of post-consumer, polyester-rich, European textile wastes, sorted and prepared in France, have been ...

A dumpster full of recycled plastic is emptied at Tank’s Speedway Recycling and Landfill in Tucson, Arizona, in March. Diannie Chavez The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Recycling was once considered the ...