Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Artist Cindy Pease Roe’s creative process starts with what washes up on shore. Rope, fishing line, netting and other marine ...

The recycling symbol isn’t copyrighted, which means any plastic-producing company can slap it on their products, even if they aren’t recyclable. That piece of paper or plastic that we supposed ...

Last August, I learned of a new study that revealed that the human brains studied were nearly 0.5% plastic by weight. Let ...

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Around the world, the triangle-shaped symbol found ... the chasing arrows logo. Plastics are numbered No. 1 through Nov. 7, with digits ascending according to recycling difficulty, according ...

Republic Services has teamed up with Ravago to create a two-pronged approach to plastic recycling. Current plans are to create four hubs around the country that feature plastic sortation and PET ...

The main logo, inspired by the unique square cap which is part of the traditional student uniform, was designed to be a simple and timeless symbol of our identity. Use of Waseda University trademarks, ...

A plastics recycling facility Nova Chemicals was considering building in the Sarnia area will not be moving ahead, the company says. Nova Chemicals announced in June 2023 it was joining Plastics ...

"Recycling is great, don't get me wrong," said Littlejohn. "But if you're going to use recycled plastic to produce more single-use plastic, that's a problem." Plastic production relies on oil ...

Coca-Cola Original Taste cans have been recalled over plastic contamination (Picture: AP) More than 10,000 cans of Coca-Cola have been recalled over concerns that they contain a ‘foreign object’.