HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

A breakthrough depolymerization technology is transforming plastic waste into their base chemical building blocks, offering a ...

CPTech's Sandwich facility pioneers the conversion of plastic waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuel, aiming to significantly ...

A broken plastic chair from a household, used for many years and eventually discarded, may once have been sold ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Researchers at Monash University have developed a new membrane technology that could make chemical recycling of plastics ...

By optimizing the process for large-scale applications, the researchers aim to ensure it can handle vast quantities of plastic waste. "Our technology has the potential to significantly reduce plastic ...

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are ...

Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back.