Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

The plastics industry is backing new federal legislation that includes provisions favorable to chemical recycling and that would set a national standard of 30 percent recycled content in plastic ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Plastic has many benefits, but recycling it has many challenges, including energy and emissions. Plastic is cheap, lightweight, strong and versatile, so we use it in millions of products. But there ...