EcoSnap tells you how and where to recycle your items from a simple picture, with advice tailored to your location. We built this product in a week for Ben's Bites AI Hackathon. The model was trained ...

Increasing plastic pollution presents ... has realized efficient chemical recycling/upcycling across various polymer classes, ranging from ester-containing, degradation-susceptible commercial ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.

If you have been to a convenience site to drop off recyclables in the last week or so you may have been frustrated by being turned away by the plastics bin being full and closed off. You are not alone ...

Austria-based packaging company says it now operates 13 PET and HDPE plastic recycling facilities in nine countries. Alpla says its facility under construction in Thailand, set to open this year, “is ...

Considering that only one-tenth of all plastic waste is recycled, new technologies that can help tackle this growing problem are urgently required. Catalytic recycling techniques, such as ...

Plastic bread tags may seem like a simple, throwaway item that you don't think twice about. However, this hacks shows how ...

Carrier bags are collected by some supermarkets and recycled into low-grade uses such as bin bags. Not generally collected from households for recycling. However, mixed plastic recycling is expected ...

A chair or table moldering away in the parking lot. Or, most likely, bags of all kinds mixing with the mandated orange bags for plastic recycling. Tucsonans seem to love the idea of recycling.

From oil extraction and plastic production to product use, recycling and disposal, the entire lifecycle of plastics leaves a trail of destruction. Plastics are inherently more complex than other ...