Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

A panel of plastics industry stakeholders identified tools that potentially could help grow domestic demand for recycled ...

Digital watermarking and AI boost flexible plastic sorting while EPR policies fund infrastructure to overcome recycling challenges ...

Experts identify multiple interlinked reasons why recycling is failing: Inefficient recycling plants – Processes such as ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington, announced the winners of the second annual APR Recycling Leadership ...

You know that little triangle with the number inside that you see on practically every plastic item you've ever touched? The one that made you feel good about tossing your yogurt container into the ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. The ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

Researchers found a way to turn plastic waste into the main ingredient in vinegar using sunlight and a simple iron based material.