Re-turn have announced that they’re rolling out their bin surrounds to towns across Ireland, after a successful rollout in ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

Recycling is a great way to reduce your negative environmental impact, but tossing these items in your bin might end up doing ...

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.

Plastic containers usually have a triangle with a resin number somewhere on the packaging that shows how they were made. Compare this symbol to your local recycling guidelines to find out if it ...

Chobani, Fage, and Yoplait containers, for instance, are #5 plastic (Chobani “Flip” yogurts are made of #6 plastic, which also isn’t accepted by most curbside recycling programs).

Plastic clamshell containers: Clear plastic takeout containers with a recycling symbol can be recycled. If it's a plastic container labeled No. 1 or No. 2, you can recycle it and should whenever ...

The recycling symbol may give the comforting impression that your plastic pop or water bottle will be recycled into other plastic bottles again and again. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance it ...

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