Bio-based plastics often end up in recycling streams because they look and feel like conventional plastic, but the contamination of these compostable products makes it much harder to generate ...

Large amounts of mixed plastics arise during recycling of household refuse, electronics, automobiles, etc. High-grade black plastics in particular cause problems in subsequent sorting aimed at ...

Universal Recycling Technologies (URT), Janesville, Wisconsin, has announced a new plastic separation and recycling system, designed for plastic electronic scrap. URT says few electronic recycling ...

Bio-based plastics such as polylactic acid (PLA) were invented to help solve the plastic waste crisis, but they often end up making waste management more challenging. Because these materials look and ...