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Only About 5% of Plastic Waste Gets Recycled in US, New Report Says Only 5% to 6% of the 46 million tons of plastic waste generated annually in the U.S. gets recycled, a big dip from the last estimate of nearly 9% just a few years ago,…

Recycling Should Be Last Resort for Managing Packaging Waste Josephine Liang, CEO of the reusable lunchbox scheme CauliBox, asserts that recycling won’t solve our sustainability problems. Recycling is often promoted as the easiest way…

Plastic Recycling Remains a 'Myth': Greenpeace Study Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace U.S. report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular…

Coles, Woolworths-partnered Recycling Giant Denies Program Failed After 'Concerning' Revelations Hundreds of millions of plastic bags dropped off by customers at major supermarkets are being stockpiled in warehouses instead of being…

Recycling To Close Synthetic Fabric Window On Fossil Energy Stakeholders In another bad sign for fossil energy stakeholders, the apparel industry supply chain is focusing more attention on recycling pre-consumer and post-consumer…

Why the Collapse of Soft Plastics Recycler Redcycle Could Be a Good Thing for the Environment The REDcycle program accounted for a small amount of Australia’s soft plastics and put the onus on the consumer. Advocates say manufacturers and…

Chemical and Mechanical Recycling Can Coexist. Will They? There seems to be little doubt that chemical or molecular recycling (pyrolysis and a magnificent variety of other technologies) will be a big part of the plastics recycling industry…

Recycle Plastics for a Cleaner Environment and Circular Economy For effective recycling, segregation of plastic material according to their properties or resin material needs to be science-based I happened to visit a grocery store in a…

Black Plastics Recycling: Towards a Circular Economy Black plastics have been notoriously difficult to detect, but recent technological developments have made it possible to sort them not only by color but also by polymer, unlocking…

India Generates 3.6 Lakh Million Tonnes Plastic Waste, 50% of It is Recycled Around 34.7 lakh tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic wastes was generated by India during 2019-20, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and…