“And those are No. 1 and No. 2 bottles and jugs ... two or five, the number might as well be zero. The nation’s accumulated plastic waste reached 44 million metric tons in 2019, or roughly ...

Key changes will start June 1 in trash and recycling collection by the Yampa Valley’s largest waste hauler, Twin Enviro Apex.

Number 3 is Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which ... improved recycling rates — at least when it comes to #1 PET and #2 HDPE plastic products. “It’s unlikely we can see high recycling rates ...

Number 2: Keep food and liquid out of your recycling. Number 3: No loose plastic bags and no bagged recyclables. Keeping that in mind, we can proceed to the general guidelines for recycling items.

Find out which things should stay out of the recycling bin by learning how to identify an item's recyclability based on its identification number. No matter how hard we try to implement plastic ...

On the evening of May 3, 2022, supermarket clerks, restaurant staff and retailers across New Jersey put away their plastic carryout bags for good as one of the nation's most stringent and wide ...

There are a number of measures upstream, so you can actually reduce the amount of primary plastic you make ... which is being called INC-5.2. The longer we wait, the worse it gets, though.

1 and 2 plastics can go in regular recycling ... like the kinds salad greens or strawberries are frequently sold in, whatever their plastic number. City officials said that’s because those ...