A pre-conference workshop at Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show in late June addressed advances in optical sorting technology for separating and sorting plastics. Workshop ...

MOTALA, Sweden (AP) — A new plastics sorting facility inaugurated in Sweden on Wednesday is being billed as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging ...

The quality of recycled plastic tends to be higher when the waste is pre-sorted by households compared with plastics recovered from mixed waste at a recycling facility in the Netherlands, research in ...

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 efficient? A review ...

HANGZHOU, China, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Chinaplas 2026 international exhibition in Shanghai, DataBeyond, a global leader in intelligent sorting equipment, officially launched China's ...

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Just how easy or not is it to sort polylactic acid (PLA), a popular bioplastic, from other packaging waste? A new study finds the same results as prior studies. Using a Near Infra-Red (NIR) sorting ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

Automation and technology are beginning to gain ground in the difficult race to make the recycling of collected mixed plastics possible, according to a trio of panelists at Recycling Today’s Plastics ...