Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine that ...

Archaeologists have long reconstructed past civilizations from broken pots, discarded tools and buried middens of everyday waste. If someone thousands of years from now digs through the layers we are ...

Takeout containers get your favorite noodles from the restaurant to your dining table (or couch) without incident, but they are nearly impossible to recycle if they are made from foil-lined plastics.

Boiler system for multilayer plastics separation. A patent awarded to RepetCo Innovations S.L., based in Madrid, describes a system and method for separating multilayered plastics commonly used in ...