It is often said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure," and for Harriete Estel Berman, she sees beauty in the discarded. As a metalsmith and artist, she transforms recycled materials into ...

A new method to recycle wind turbine blades without using harsh chemicals resulted in the recovery of high-strength glass fibers and resins that allowed researchers to re-purpose the materials to ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

New flexible packaging films have a unique combination of performance, durability and easy scalability to help strengthen the broader recycling ecosystem, paving the way for stronger, cleaner ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...

Researchers at the university in New York have combined four detection methods in an attempt to measure recycled content in a plastic sample or package. “By fabricating such a device, we hope to ...

Cyclic Materials will supply copper from its Spoke operations to Glencore’s copper recycling operation in Quebec, Canada TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyclic Materials, an advanced metals recycling ...

BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With electronic devices being replaced at an ever-faster pace, global volumes of consumer e-waste continue to climb. In response, governments and regulators ...

Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP (photo by WSU). PULLMAN ...