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 ...

Facebook X Reddit Email When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone ...

People feel good about it — like, ‘Oh, there’s a recycling logo on this, I guess I can put it in my recycling bin.’ There was deceptive advertising, and that’s why the public is so ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

Plastic was long heralded as a miracle material in the U.S. — a shapeshifter that could morph into anything from clear bags to lampshades and storage boxes. In the 1950s and 1960s, plastic resin ...

Some argue that plastic recycling takes about as much energy as it saves, canceling out its environmental benefit. Others lament China’s decision to stop accepting recycled plastic from the U.S.

Widespread confusion about recycling leads to many sustainably minded people tossing items in the single-stream bin that don’t belong there. Some things, including plastic bags, can be brought ...

What do we do next? The plastic industry pushed recycling as a solution to waste, while internally dismissing it as technically and economically unviable. Harriet Weber Feb 28, 2024 10:00 AM EST ...