How single-stream recycling works — and how your choices can make it work better

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...
abc13

Mechanical recycling: A look inside one of many ways to recycle plastic

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 ...
Wired

Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: Bacteria-Created Plastic That Can Be Recycled Forever

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...
NPR

The importance of recycling plastic may be a myth

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...