I'd been doing it wrong for years. Anything with a chasing arrows symbol went straight into the recycling bin — I didn't think twice about it. The number inside the triangle meant nothing to me. So I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. workers sorting plastic bottles - cazawi/Shutterstock Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even ...

Have you ever noticed the number printed at the bottom of your plastic water bottle? It reveals the type of plastic used and ...

Considering the climate crisis and worldwide plastic pollution, many people believe that recycling materials, in particular plastic, is the solution to our problems. Recycling can reduce resource use, ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead - In 2018 alone, over 3 million tons of plastic bags, sacks, and wraps in the United States were sent to landfills ...

Sparked by a visit to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, I shared with PlasticsToday readers the first article in a two-part series on the global plastics recycling issue, Which Consumers are ...

Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even harder. The biggest issue for most Americans is that recycling laws vary greatly between different cities and states — not ...