3B SpA's Respet panels are made by either lamination or thermoforming from 100% recycled plastic bottles. Metallic impurities, caps, and labels are removed before crushing the plastic bottles into ...

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said. ...

PVC, aka vinyl or polyvinyl chloride, is a versatile component found in many of the products we use every day — from siding and pipes to medical supplies to car upholstery and record albums. Along ...

Last fall, a Greenpeace report on plastic recycling made headlines around the world when news outlets led with the publication’s striking key finding: Only five percent of plastic household waste ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Doran Oancia, CEO of Chemex Global, moderated a discussion ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you think plastic laminate went out with the 1970s, think again. The material is going strong today ...