Federal partnership will explore lithium-ion recycling
ACE Green Recycling and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working together to advance both lithium-ion...
Research
REMADE Institute awards millions in plastic R&D grants
A federally backed research institute has awarded nearly $10 million to various R&D projects, with nearly half going to work...
AMERIPEN: Recycling market development efforts pay off
Recently published research from AMERIPEN dug into the past three decades of state recycling marketing development, finding that creating recycling...
REMADE Institute awards millions in R&D funding
A federally backed research institute has awarded nearly $10 million to projects supporting remanufacturing and recycling, with particularly heavy sums...
LCA quantifies chemical recycling’s GHG reductions
A life cycle analysis from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory suggested that chemically recycling plastics entails lower...
Casella tests recyclability of medical plastics
As part of a pilot project to explore the recyclability of medical waste, Casella Waste Systems and medical company BD...
Studies cover food-grade recycled PP, airborne plastics
One academic study from Iowa explored using residential PP scrap at different levels in new food bottles, and another in...
Closed Loop study breaks down chemical recycling terms
As with many emerging technologies, chemical recycling goes by a variety of names, including “advanced” and “molecular” recycling. A study...
AI-powered study will examine PP recycling streams
Closed Loop Partners, NextGen Consortium and AI developer Greyparrot plan to study the composition of polypropylene in recycling streams using...
Report finds generally stagnant bottle return rates
Most states with deposit return systems saw static or reduced bottle redemption rates in 2022.
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