When you put plastic packaging into your recycling bin, it might be a surprise to learn that the least likely thing to happen ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a ...

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.

As a proof of concept, it seems as though this machine was made from repurposed plastic, but it could also be made using whatever filament you happen to have on hand. As far as recycling goes ...

China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem. It's an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of plastic waste we ...

Safer, cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable than current plastic recycling methods, the new technique offers a promising path toward creating a circular economy for plastics. The study was ...

Irradiating materials is no longer just a manufacturing tool, but also a recycling tool, so the ionizing radiation techniques used to modify polymers are relevant for plastic waste processing. Bin ...

CalRecycle’s draft rules detailed how plastic packaging producers would avoid plastic ending up in the landfill, but retailers and farmers said they wouldn’t work as written. California Gov.

To reverse that trend, Zeldin should roll back an EPA edict aimed at every city and town in the country: the national recycling goal. Instead of putting plastic in those blue bins, we should ...

You can find recycling stations along the Napoleon and St. Charles Avenue parade routes from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 1 at Iris and Sunday, March 2 at Thoth. More information can be ...