Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing 'advanced' recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off ...

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers ...

Leiden Ph.D. candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly 20% of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade ...

Sometimes, certain things can’t be recycled, or they can only be taken to specific places — this frustrating process can lead ...

People throw away solid waste every day. This includes every scrap of paper, glass, rubber, textiles, food, and plastic. Even ...

The simplicity of the recycling symbol belies its complicated role in corporate America’s quest to sell ever more plastic ...

The law aims to boost recycling of single-use plastic packaging and food service ware to 65 percent, trim sales of single-use ...

Plastics are surely the marvel of modern engineering, yet the very properties that make them so useful also make them an environmental nightmare. Polyolefins, a type of plastic found in everything ...

A coalition of plastic recyclers have launched the Responsible Recycling Alliance (RRA) in opposition to AB 2236 and SB 1053, ...

The newly formed Responsible Recycling Alliance says bills would roll back state’s environmental gains and kill jobs.

Australians have always been great recyclers. But recycling cannot just be a feel-good exercise for the community. This is ...

But businesses that rely on plastic production, like fossil fuel and chemical companies, have worked since the 1980s to spin ...