Unlike standard mechanical recycling, which “downcycles” plastic into a lower-quality material, the enzymatic process makes it possible to recycle a bottle into a material that’s equal in quality to ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

The bottle, which has the brand name engraved onto the recycled plastic, is part of Evian’s effort to become fully circular by 2025. When a plastic bottle ends up in a recycling plant, the label ...

When picking up a bottle of pop at the store, most people end up grabbing a bottle that one local man helped invent. Tom Brady, originally from Maumee, was part of the team that invented the ...