Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that ...

Retailers throw out millions of plastic bags used to transport garments through the supply chain. Anthropologie partnered ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something ... nature’s greatest pre-packaged ...

The Government’s long-awaited packaging recycling scheme, due to come in to effect this autumn, will lead to a major increase ...

Plastic waste is a weighty concern for members of Latrobe’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. Since last May, the church ...

a bag, or even another bottle. But while it may have a fresh start ahead, recycling is not the start of its environmental journey. Far from it: Every moment of a product’s existence has ...

“And much of this end up discarded within recycling plants ... such as potato chip bags — which combine plastic and vapour-deposited aluminium in order to maintain freshness — to electrical ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

But as these packages pile up on doorsteps all over the world, a glaring issue has emerged: How do you recycle ... products to be more sustainable, increasing the recycled content of plastic film ...

New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to address the environmental impacts of plastic waste. Before the ban ...