A stretchy, conductive type of plastic could help power the next generation of implantable biomedical devices, like longer-lasting pacemakers or glucose monitors, according to Enrique Gomez, professor ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds (0.34 kilograms) of plastic ...

At Austin Resource Recovery in Texas, styrofoam is densified so it can be recycled. While hot, the gooey substance looks like octopus arms squeezing out of a machine. “From here we take these, and we ...

Whether sorting plastics for the specific needs of an advanced recycler or separating material inside a more traditional material recovery facility (MRF), Machinex has designed turnkey solutions that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds ...