For more than two years, some plastics collected and sorted in Louisville's recycling program were shipped to a controversial "chemical recycling" plant near Hebron, Ohio, which struggled to ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

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 ...

33 billion pounds of plastic enters our oceans annually. A local woman created a product we all use—using recycled plastic—to ...

It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, curbside contamination is on the rise, and states are still struggling to ...

A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to better-quality recycled plastic, a new study has shown. The adhesives used to stick ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 22, 2026 / The Age of Parity is permanent, and certified recycled plastic ...

Silica microspheres trap pigments in plastic, allowing repeated recycling at room temperature without quality loss or energy ...

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