A study in ChemBioChem shows that ultraviolet-ozone (UVO) pretreatment significantly enhances PETase enzyme activity for breaking down PET in cotton/polyester textiles, offering a sustainable textile ...

Amazon’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab is trying to design a kind of plastic that's cleaner to make—and easier to ...

Plastic companies are using a convoluted accounting system to make it seem that their products have more recycled content ...

Scotts revives heritage brand with a recyclable paper sack from ProAmpac that’s built for performance and rooted in ...

will offer e-waste recycling in the area to anyone wishing to dispose of worn out or broken electronics. The group will also accept paper products that will be recycled. The event will be held in the ...

Georgia-Pacific’s Savannah River mill in Rincon, Georgia, now accepts polyethylene (PE)-coated paper cups in its mixed paper ...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how a paper pill bottle could revolutionize pharmacy packaging and cut plastic waste ...

Anthony Pratt, an Australian business tycoon and chairman of Visy Industries and Pratt Industries — global leaders in packaging and recycling — has taken a decidedly different approach.

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

An analysis of the global plastics industry shows that only 9.5% of plastic was made from recycled materials in 2022. Almost a third of plastic waste produced during that year was allocated for ...

Steer World in Bengaluru has introduced the Omega Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology, a breakthrough for recycling previously un-meltable plastics like crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE). This innovation ...

Three-month trial sees Valpak’s National Cup Recycling Scheme partner with Bower and Keep Wales Tidy in what it says is a 'world-first' ...