Any recycling not collected Monday will be prioritized for pickup Tuesday. Garbage pickup was affected by the mechanical issues, but it is unlikely to experience a significant schedule change this ...

That process is called mechanical recycling, in which recycling is sorted to separate the plastic. Then, the plastic is chopped, melted in an extruder, and shaped in an injection molder.

The United States in 2021 had a dismal recycling rate of about 5 percent for post-consumer plastic waste, down from a high of 9.5 percent in 2014, when the U.S. exported millions of tons of ...

Chemical recycling is an environmental health risk and will not solve the plastic crisis, a new report shows. Besides, more than half of carbon in the plastic is lost in the process of upgrading ...

New recycling process could find markets for 'junk' plastic waste Date: August 11, 2023 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic ...