The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Prioritizing clear labels, circular materials and policies that support recycling infrastructure helps to build stronger ...

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — What is written on the glass partitions in this chemistry lab may look like another language, but it could be the key to unlocking a solution to America's plastic predicament.

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Recycling of plastics from cars faces technical and economic hurdles. A new industry coalition aims to tackle it, but admits ...

Instead of plastics making waste we’re making plastics out of waste,” says Jack “Tato” Bigio with UBQ Materials.

Richmond region residents will soon be able to throw out their trash in bins that were once garbage themselves.

I recently had the chance to chat with nearly 400 lively 5th and 6th graders from southwest Minnesota about recycling. We jazzed things up with a Q&A game featuring the ever-popular Plinko — because ...

California is suing three plastic bag manufacturers that officials say are violating state law by providing bags billed as ...