Recycling plastic is much harder than many people realize. Every day, homes and businesses throw away large amounts of ...

Plastics recycling is evolving but still faces major challenges as material types are more varied and complex than ever. This complexity often creates issues in sorting, making it difficult for ...

Barcode readers excel at quickly identifying groceries and other products. Could a similar idea work at industrial recycling ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

Austria’s Steinbeis Polyvert GmbH uses an array of technology provided by Sesotec to sort and recycle postconsumer plastic. Sesotec says it has helped Steinbeis Polyvert become a producer of ...

That plastic grocery bag sitting under the sink may look harmless. It is light, useful, and easy to forget. But once it lands ...

Waste Management, the nation’s biggest recycler, is spending $1.4 billion to become more efficient at recycling. How it’s ...

That blue bin for your recycling isn’t supposed to be a catchall for stuff you can’t fit in your regular garbage can.