Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even harder. The biggest issue for most Americans is that recycling laws vary greatly between different cities and states — not ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

We’ve all seen the little triangle of arrows on the bottoms of plastic bottles and other containers, intended to guide consumers to proper plastic recycling. But if you also have noticed the ...

Considering the climate crisis and worldwide plastic pollution, many people believe that recycling materials, in particular plastic, is the solution to our problems. Recycling can reduce resource use, ...

Sparked by a visit to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, I shared with PlasticsToday readers the first article in a two-part series on the global plastics recycling issue, Which Consumers are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Soft, stretchy plastics can make up grocery bags, bubble wrap and more. They’re impossible to avoid and harder still to properly dispose of. If thrown in the trash, they can take up to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. workers sorting plastic bottles - cazawi/Shutterstock Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even ...