The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, the insulation in your home, and even the parts of your phone.

Integrating molecular traceability into recycled plastics to deliver transparent, auditable, and regulatory-ready ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

A US nationwide bottle deposit program could increase recycling of PET plastic to 82 percent, with nearly two-thirds of all PET bottles being recycled into new bottles, at a net cost of just a penny a ...

Rumpke Waste & Recycling of Cincinnati recently added PET thermoform packaging to its recycling stream collected from ...

Questions remain around how to effectively track recycled content in packaging and how to incentivize sourcing recycled ...

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 ...

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Canada’s first marine waste recycling program has been turning abandoned fishing gear and other plastic waste from the ocean into pellets for new products for five years. But now, federal and ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 3, 2025 / Plastic isn’t just everywhere – it’s everything. From the food we buy to ...