All Plastics Are Recyclable S. are actually recycled, according to recent Greenpeace USA reports. Environmental experts consistently find that most plastic items bearing recycling symbols simply ...

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of ...

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has announced the first-ever Recycling in Action month, a new initiative the organization says will increase visibility into the plastic ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In a landmark lawsuit filed this week, the California ...

The company says “char,” a byproduct of its chemical recycling process, is being commercialized under the Tacfiller name and ...

The state also announced it was suing three other companies that it said illegally marketed their plastic bags as being ...

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