A new industry-led soft plastics recycling scheme is gearing up to replace Australia’s failed REDcycle programme, aiming to revive collection, reduce waste to landfill and impose a levy on ...

Brisbane, Australia — Soft plastic collection could soon return to Australian supermarkets, following a preliminary green light from the country's antitrust regulator. The Australian Competition and ...

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, curbside contamination is on the rise, and states are still struggling to ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

Plastics recycling is evolving but still faces major challenges as material types are more varied and complex than ever. This complexity often creates issues in sorting, making it difficult for ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can't see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more ...

Tomra and Plastretur are set to transform Norway’s recycling with the opening of their new national facility, which aims to ...