According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the retirees call themselves, go through a process of flattening, cutting, ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

According to The Environmental Protection Agency the average American produces about 1300 pounds of non-recyclable waste each year. Plastic shopping bags are included in that total. The phrase Reduce, ...

Online and rapid deliveries are being blamed for a rise in single-use bag sales. Technical fixes and easy wins could reverse the increase, say experts The number of single-use plastic bags sold in ...