Explore the fascinating process of recycling plastic bottles, where old materials are given a new life through advanced techniques. From collection to cleaning, the process begins with gathering used ...

“People know about the program, and they know they can recycle more than the (types) that were desirable for a long time.” In the past, plastics such as water and pop bottles, milk jugs and ...

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Do you cross the street to put your soda can in the recycling bin or avidly pluck plastics and paper from your neighbor’s trash cans? The current state of recycling in the United States may ...

The Beer Snake—that magnificent slinky plastic stretch of hundreds of emptied beer cups stacked up by golf fans at the 16th ...

In Nigeria, informal collectors of plastic bottle waste are central to resolving the clash between its environmental costs ...

Activists and plastics producers are back in Albany this week to continue last year’s fight over the Packaging Reduction and ...

Berry Global (Berry) has revealed its bottle and cap solution made from post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic, designed for ...

Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) proposed the Recycling, Refund and Litter Reduction Amendment Act of 2025, also referred to as the “Bottle Bill.” The amendment would place an initial 10-cent ...