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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black polystyrene, widely used in food containers, coffee lids, and packaging, is notoriously hard to recycle. Its dark color, ...

Researchers from Cornell University and Princeton University demonstrated in ACS Central Science that a specific additive in black plastics can be utilized, using sunlight or white LEDs, to transform ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, ...

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 ...