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, ...

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. View on ...

Last August, I learned of a new study that revealed that the human brains studied were nearly 0.5% plastic by weight. Let ...

Recycling plastic is a great way to reduce environmental impact. Plastic is one of the most commonly used materials, yet when it ends up in the landfill, it can take up to 500 years to break down, ...

New Zealand sends most of its recycling to places like Indonesia and Malaysia – where communities are living with the ...

The city recommends the following recycling guidelines: Accepted items include plastics labeled #1–5 and #7 (excluding #6 plastics like Styrofoam), aluminum and tin cans, corrugated cardboard ...

Let's be honest: Recycling is confusing. You might assume most takeout containers are recyclable in 2025, but that's far from ...

However, as the year moves closer to its midway point, many brands have not met their 2025 goals. A panel at the Plastics Recycling Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, recently addressed the ...

The European Union's plastic recycling industry is at a breaking point ... post-consumer plastics decreased by 7.8 percent, to 7.1 million tonnes. By contrast, global plastics production rose ...

It could, potentially, open major new sources of raw materials for PET packaging, according to a panel at the recent Plastics ... recycling and depolymerization technology could, by 2040, supply 1 ...

Expanded polystyrene foam, the white fluffy plastic in styrofoam, was banned in food service ware on Jan. 1. But shoppers in CA say its still on the shelves.

"Recycling is great, don't get me wrong," said Littlejohn. "But if you're going to use recycled plastic to produce more single-use plastic, that's a problem." Plastic production relies on oil ...