Although the circular economy involves other principles such as the regeneration of natural systems, the reuse or recycling of materials plays an important role in contributing to the reduction of ...

In the future, microorganisms could help return hard-to-recycle plastics to the recycling loop. Nick Wierckx, a molecular ...

Paper recycling consultant Bill Moore says several countries have enacted policies that can boost recovered paper collection rates in nations with developing economies. Industry consultant Bill Moore ...

Recycling is enabled by the isolation of PSW from MSW, with the fraction of the total PSW thus processed being referred to as the recovery rate. Plastics that have higher recovery rates are not ...

The pace of electrification is surging, and recycling is key towards a circular battery life cycle. However, as the usage of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) expands in modern technologies and ever more ...

Plastic bags have been a hot topic with city legislatures lately. As of May of 2008, 117 laws and ordinances to ban or tax the use of plastic bags or to promote the recycling of these bags were up for ...

Data centers produce a tremendous amount of heat, and some recent examples of recycling that heat for other uses have begun to generate buzz across the U.S. and Europe. But experts say these ...