Plasma donation and testing company BioLife Plasma Services LP in has invested $4 million to expand its testing laboratory in Hoover, Ala., and buy equipment to recycle biohazardous plastics waste ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

A Houston electronics recycler has spent millions to upgrade plastics processing equipment — creating a new ability to separate different resins — in a move aimed at expanding domestic interest and ...

The plastic lifecycle currently emits more than 0.85 gigatons of greenhouse gases. If current plastic production and consumption patterns continue, emissions could reach 1.34 gigatons per year by 2050 ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...