IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute says mechanical recycling of plastic offers climate benefits. “The results of the study show that high-quality recycling through advanced sorting is better ...

An international research group has developed a comprehensive framework to evaluate the economic and climate benefits of local versus outsourced PV waste recycling. Covering mainstream recycling ...

A Eunomia report commissioned by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste aimed to set requirements for pyrolysis feedstock. | paul prescott/Shutterstock Two recently released reports investigated the ...

The United States rightfully takes great pride in being a global leader in many areas of business and innovation but lags other nations in realizing the economic and environmental benefits of ...

This article appeared in the February 2025 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Did you know that the U.S. produces 268 million tons of trash each year, most ...

Sustainability means to avoid the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. In other words, it is sustainable to keep the material already in use in the human sphere ...

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I was fortunate to preview a new $50 million materials recovery facility (MRF) in Chicago opened last year by Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS). That eye-opening experience in August the day before ...

The global solar boom could leave behind as much as 402 million tonnes (443 million tons) of discarded photovoltaic panels by 2060, creating a waste crisis that threatens to undermine the clean-energy ...