But there is no guarantee that any particular bottle, pair of sunglasses or power tool actually contains recycled plastic ... have otherwise gone to the landfill or incinerator are being ...

Kevin Grold says his plastic water bottle ended up at a landfill in Riverside. Many of us, like Grold, are conscious of doing our part, by putting recyclables in the blue bin. Grold says it was ...

When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling ... rather than sent to the landfill. This story is part ...

More time is needed to evaluate the impact of this shift, but there is a chance that tethered bottle caps could lead to higher instances of plastic going to landfill, as the caps must be ...

“Castaway” runs through April 6 of next year at Harvard‘s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. The Peabody‘s Ilisa ...

“It is the consumer of the beverage who chooses to divert the plastic bottle from the landfill by placing the empty bottle in the recycling bin instead of the trash,” says Bédat. If a company ...

who co-chairs the Plastic Bottle Waste Commission. Hagan McEntee said tens of thousands of recyclables are rejected and diverted to the Johnston landfill due to contamination, costing taxpayers ...

More time is needed to evaluate the impact of this shift, but there is a chance that tethered bottle caps could lead to higher instances of plastic going to landfill, as the caps must be ...