Soda bottles, sour cream containers and disposable cutlery—these plastics (and many others) typically arrive at recycling plants mixed together in the same bin. But because they are made of different ...

Waste plastics contain immiscible polymers, making recycling challenging. A new additive enables the thermal reprocessing of mixed plastics into recyclable, high-performance materials. A major ...

Biffa Polymers, based in the United Kingdom, has opened what it claims is the U.K.’s first mixed plastic sorting and processing facility in Redcar, Middlesbrough, U.K. The facility was opened after ...

Post-consumer plastics are almost always collected as a mixed stream of waste, and products are often manufactured from two or more types of plastics. The bad news is that these items, though all ...