This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

That instinct to drop anything plastic, paper or cardboard into the recycling bin is hard to shake, but it's also one of the ...

There, in a class called Climate and Energy Ventures, he met Jan-Georg Rosenboom, a postdoc who had developed a chemical ...

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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 ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the Association of Plastic Recyclers. According to APR post-tour surveys last year, 74 ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, need to do more to reduce the amount of the waste going into landfills, ...

The company says its sorting facility in Sweden is the first in Europe to receive the RecyClass Sorting Process Certification designation. “Being the first in Europe to receive this certification ...

MANILA, Philippines—A food-grade plastic recycling firm is set to open the first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) ...