Gamini Mendis, assistant professor of plastics engineering technology, in the plastics lab at Penn State University's Behrend campus. A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in ...

An European Union-funded project is currently being undertaken to establish safer recycling methods for food packaging materials such as PET resins. Currently the project, which is being undertaken at ...

DecomBlades was a project that ran from 2021-2023 aiming to provide a basis for commercialized recycling of wind turbine blades. More specifically, its vision was to (1) establish functional value ...

At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/Community News Service Natalie Bankmann is a reporter for the Community News Service, part of the ...

You’re never too young to learn to recycle. And what better way to start teaching the next generation than with paper and cardboard? After all, they are among the most recycled materials in the U.S.!

Parts from former Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 aircraft have been ground down and converted into 3D printable material for use in the United Kingdom’s sixth generation Tempest manned fighter jet. The ...

Addressing the low recycling rate of textile and fiber materials, the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF), reported to be Europe’s largest textile research center, has ...

International Recycling Group (IRG) canceled plans for a large plastics recycling facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, citing financial challenges. The company faced a hold on funding from the Department ...

Los Angeles will soon begin building a water recycling facility in the San Fernando Valley. When complete, the facility will transform wastewater into purified drinking water for about 250,000 people.

You can save a few wine corks and make a cute pen holder and organizer for your desk or a nice planter box. If you can gather enough corks you could even make a custom bath mat. There are many other ...

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is working on a plan to achieve the state's long-held goal to recycle half ...

Recycle Dat, the partnership pushing to make Mardi Gras a greener celebration, is returning to the streets of New Orleans for a third year with new ways to make it easier for revelers to reduce waste ...