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The first, which has been around for decades, involves sorting, washing, shredding and melting down plastic waste and reshaping it into pellets. Much of the recycled plastic produced by this ...

The approval process “is very lax,” she said. Globally, just 9 percent of plastic is recycled. Most is recycled mechanically, by sorting, washing, grinding, and re-compounding the material into ...

Experts say plastic recycling reduces dependence on virgin plastic production, which requires fossil fuels and emits ...

Not now. Maybe not ever. In traditional recycling, plastic is turned into tiny pellets or flakes, which you can melt again and mold back into recycled plastic products. Even in a real-life ...

That's why less than 10% gets recycled. But Cyclyx says it figured out a way to sort and process any kind of plastic into pellets that can then be recycled. Tebbets admits the company has never ...

At the Penn State Behrend plastics lab, assistant professor Gamini Mendis shows off recycled plastic pellets, similar to what IRG plans to produce at its new plant in Erie. At the Penn State ...