Recycling is about to get greener in central Ohio, thanks to artificial intelligence. "Rumpke is berry egg-cited to announce that clamshell plastic containers are now recyclable," Rumpke Waste & ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Rumpke recycling customers will soon no longer have to stuff their trash cans with bulky produce clamshell packaging and cumbersome plastic carry-out containers. Rumpke Waste ...

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Plastic takeout food containers are no longer being accepted for recycling and must be thrown out, Whatcom County’s waste hauler said in a social media post last week. Such containers include the ...

As you stand in the grocery store, take a look around you. Almost every item you see is wrapped in something. There are cans of beans, plastic jars of peanut butter, cardboard boxes full of cereal, ...

Last month, the state banned foam clamshells and trays. Litter wranglers said they still find other illegal items on roads. EVERETT — Over the past four years, the state Department of Ecology has ...

James Cronin received funding from the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council as co-investigators of the 'Plastic Packaging in People's Lives' (PPiPL) project. Project Reference: NE/V010611/1. More ...

Every day, consumers rip open packaged goods and discard the single-use plastic wrapper. That makes plastic pollution the key environmental concern for consumer packaged goods firms—and the target of ...

Plastic packaging waste from the online retail giant Amazon ballooned to 709 million pounds globally in 2021 — equivalent to the weight of some 70,000 killer whales — according to a new report ...