The best way forward is to change the social and economic system surrounding the production of plastic and the management of ...

Every week, you probably dump a bag of recyclables into a big blue bin. And you probably feel good that you're sending it off for recycling, including your plastic bottles, milk jugs and berry baskets ...

The Truth About Plastic Recycling examines the complexity and effectiveness of plastic recycling. Despite the plastic industry's promotion of recycling as a solution to the plastic waste problem, much ...

The time for Americans to be honest about “recycling” may have arrived. Thank the Chinese for forcing us into a discussion we should have had years ago. Millions of Americans separate materials such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your climate ...

Let’s face it: the public doesn’t believe in recycling anymore. Despite billions of dollars spent on the rollout of citywide recycling programs and public awareness campaigns, only 43 percent of ...

A. J. Jacobs, writer for The New York Times, shared his attempt to avoid plastic in an article published Jan. 15, 2023: “On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products—or ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...