If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

One of the biggest recycling misconceptions is assuming the recycling facility can easily separate items placed in the bin, says Jay Simmons, packaging product development manager from North Pacific ...

What to know about the larger fight over single-use plastics after Trump's executive order against paper straws.

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long ...

82 percent support protecting people in neighborhoods affected by pollution from plastic-production facilities. 82 percent of ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...

It's a hard plastic signified by the number "1" inside the triangle. Once a PET bottle goes to a recycling plant, Exchange for Change's Ms Smalley said, they're "sorted, washed and shredded into ...

Or, most likely, bags of all kinds mixing with the mandated orange bags for plastic recycling. Tucsonans seem to love the idea of recycling. In fact, they love recycling so much they seem to be ...

An example of a communal recycling point in the Netherlands. You can usually find these within every neighbourhood. Image: Depositphotos Municipalities usually have containers for waste, paper, glass, ...