Why do plastic bags look and feel so different to plastic containers, such as soft drink bottles or yogurt tubs? The difference is because there is more than one type of plastic. Plastic is usually ...

In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, here are eight simple tips from Republic Services to make at-home recycling easy and free ...

In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, here are eight simple tips from Republic Services to make at-home recycling easy and free ...

Only two kinds of plastic (#1 PET, or Polyethylene Terephthalate, and #2 HDPE, or High-Density Polyethylene) are widely accepted by most curbside recycling programs. Some examples of things you ...

Because it’s lightweight and brittle, it’s difficult to collect and process and easily contaminates recycling streams. Symbol 1 – Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, widely used in soda bottles.

The Austrian packaging manufacturer and recycler Alpla is undertaking two projects working towards approval from the European ...

Walk on almost any beach or look on the side of most roads and you’ll see the bottles, bags, and cast-off scraps of a polymeric alphabet soup – HDPE, PET, ABS, PP, PS. Municipal recycling ...