An investigation into the plastic recycling streams in the US revealed how the governing bodies are selling a lie.

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In May, 36 recycling facilities across 20 states hosted public tours to show how materials are sorted, processed and turned ...

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

Clean, well-sorted plastic is a valuable commodity. If the chemical recycling industry grows, experts told me, those companies could end up competing with the far more efficient traditional recycling.

Plastic packaging materials sit atop a plastic mailing envelope in Point Pleasant, N.J., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Credit: AP/Wayne Parry“Our waterways are literally swimming in plastics," he said.

Not now. Maybe not ever. Lesson 1: Most of the old plastic that goes into pyrolysis doesn’t actually become new plastic. In traditional recycling, plastic is turned into tiny pellets or flakes ...