Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Artist Cindy Pease Roe’s creative process starts with what washes up on shore. Rope, fishing line, netting and other marine ...

Much plastic waste is soiled and composed of several different layers, making it too complex for the usual recycling method ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Yoplait has rolled out a clear, 35% recycled PET bottle with an attached cap and micro-perforated sleeve for its Yop yoghurt ...

Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled.

Amazon has yet to set a deadline for when it will eliminate plastic-padded shipping bags, or make a commitment to eliminate the remaining single-use plastic used in its shipments, including other ...

The recycling symbol isn’t copyrighted, which means any plastic-producing company can slap it on their products, even if they aren’t recyclable. That piece of paper or plastic that we supposed ...

Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would impose at 10-cent deposit on the purchase of each bottled or canned beverage. That deposit would then be refunded if the ...

But tossing your glass in here is the easy part. Behind the scenes, local authorities and recycling companies scurry to collect these bottles and jars to transport them to a recycling facility. This ...

Plastic waste is a heavy burden on the oceans. A team from Japan has developed a solution: a plastic that dissolves in salt water.