"Microplastic particles are currently found almost everywhere—in water, food, fish, and even breast milk," says Artūras ...

which makes it more difficult to recycle. Problematic plastics include black plastic food trays, which are used by many supermarkets. They are generally not collected as sorting machines are not ...

WM, formerly Waste Management Inc., recently distributed a flier calling on customers to “free your recyclables,” urging ...

It’s called optical sorting and has been ... be treated differently. Soft plastics like those that Tesco was trying to ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food ... clog the spinning machinery. To solve those problems, Ma and Qin’s team co-developed a process that uses six advanced sorting machines to ...