We’ve all seen the little triangle of arrows on the bottoms of plastic bottles and other containers, intended to guide consumers to proper plastic recycling. But if you also have noticed the ...

Only 4.7% of plastic produced by U.S. households in 2021 was recycled, according to a Greenpeace USA report. But that's not for lack of consumer participation. Greenpeace said most plastics simply ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

The consumer products maker says it surpassed its 2025 goals and has set new targets for 2030 as part of its work with the ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

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Only about 9% of plastic is recycled. Most of the rest goes to landfills or ends up in the environment. FutureBio wants to change those numbers.

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially ...

Texas voters will face 17 proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots next Tuesday, including Proposition 15, a shortly-worded and somewhat vague proposal that affirms that "parents are the ...