Desktop 3D printers have hit price-points that make them as affordable as color laser printers. But they also share the same problem – replacing the printing medium costs an arm and a leg. A kilogram ...

Governments at the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the Basel Convention have voted in support of restricting plastic scrap exports by requiring countries to obtain prior informed consent ...

Plastic recycling process. One stumbling block to broader adoption of a circular economy is the low value of plastics recycled from mixed plastic scrap. The highest value is assigned to plastics that ...

We're coming up on America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, and that means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release the latest official U.S. recycling numbers. For plastics, it's probably not ...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Sept. 11 it's adopted plastic waste management rules that it called "partial progress" on dealing with exporting of scrap within its 37 ...

It just got more difficult for rich countries to ship their plastic waste to poor countries. On May 10, more than 180 nations agreed in Geneva to add mixed plastic scrap to the Basel Convention, the ...