Not all plastics are equal — some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 17, 2025 / Every industry has its white whale, the problem that defies solution year after year. For the recycling world, that problem has always been carbon ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

Delta-Energy LLC, Monroeville, Pa., has introduced two carbon black-based products recovered from tire shred that can be used as alternatives to virgin carbon black in rubber and plastic compounds.

Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using ...

The Continental Tires business unit of Germany-based Continental AG has reached a long-term purchase agreement with Pyrum Innovations to provide Continental with recycled-content carbon black (rCB) to ...

Inside this reaction vial, spotlit by concentrated sunlight, a piece of black polystyrene from a foam tray breaks down into a recyclable material. Not all plastics are equal — some types and colors ...