Around 1400 tonnes were recycled by the Precious Plastic community in one year. Could open-source tech help plastic recycling finally take off? It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student ...

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has hit a roadblock in its initiative to install plastic water bottle recycling machines at select locations across the city due to a lack of funds.Despite ...

The majority of the 300 million tons of plastic produced every year isn’t recycled, and recycling that does happen typically happens at an industrial scale in factories using equipment that can cost ...

Tainan City, Taiwan-based YE I Machinery Factory Co. Ltd. says its Plastic Waste Recycling Machine line of equipment offers “three-in-one” shredding, extruding and pelletizing functions in one device.

But what if our body could actually recycle plastic, breaking it down to keep this waste out of our landfills and oceans? [Image: courtesy Matthew Harkness] That’s a question being asked by Matthew ...

VALPARAISO — Tubes filled with multicolored plastic pellets fill the shelf in Adam Johnson's kitchen. A large motor is perched on a table by the back door and, across from it, sits a peculiar metal ...

At a large warehouse full of roaring recycling machines, Chloé Dubois stands beside a sack full of thousands of tiny plastic ...

CORONA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--rePLANET today announced that it is reactivating over 250 automated plastic bottle recycling facilities across California to ensure recycling is made as simple and ...

Polymer binder used by California-based firm is made from discarded plastic bottles. G5 asphalt pavement binder from TechniSoil Industrial is made in part from discarded plastic bottles. Image ...

HOUSTON & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Plastic Energy Ltd., Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC and TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) have announced a strategic partnership in the U.S.

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

When a young Dutch designer named Dave Hakkens released Plonebloks, a concept for a modular phone, it set the internet on fire and helped Google along the same path. The explosion of attention was an ...