Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to ...

Process flow diagram of the enzymatic PET recycling process, adapted from Singh et al. Credit: Nature Chemical Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00212-y ...

Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises October 24, 2022 / 6:20 AM EDT / AFP Recycling plastic isn't as effective as you think ...

The recycling industry could adopt the process soon; in recent years, at least 10 large chemical companies have built or announced plans for facilities to produce pyrolysis oils from waste plastics.

The Recycling in Action experience will allow people to see how recyclers separate materials using state-of-art technology, understand why certain materials contaminate the sorting process, learn ...

Soda bottles, sour cream containers and disposable cutlery—these plastics (and many others) typically arrive at recycling plants mixed together in the same bin. But because they are made of ...

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.

About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever recycled. The city of Houston says it has an innovative new program that can recycle any ...