The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

Plastic pollution is one of the more pressing issues for conservationists and environmentalists alike. Researchers in Sweden harvested a byproduct of plastic disposal and used it to create a new ...

Plastic is a key component of modern life. This cheap, tough, yet pliant material is everywhere you look, from kitchen ...

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

'Flexible plastic' items like potato chip bags are often thrown away, but can be recycled back into food-grade films using an award-winning COtooCLEAN process. So-called flexible plastics aren’t very ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s environment.

At present, the plant has been successfully put into operation and running continuously and efficiently for several months, ...

KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - What better way to learn about recycling than to actually see the process? That’s what a group of East Texas students got to experience. And the biggest student recyclers are ...