At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

Have you tossed plastic into a recycling bin recently? There’s a large chance that material won’t be recycled. That’s ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Plastic has many benefits, but recycling it has many challenges, including energy and emissions. Plastic is cheap, lightweight, strong and versatile, so we use it in millions of products. But there ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...