Millions of waste plastic bottles, which would otherwise harm our environment, are recycled and transformed into durable plastic rope rolls through an innovative and eco-friendly process. First, the ...

Jan Dell, the outspoken recycling critic and thorn in the side of the plastics industry, wants the American public to face facts ... Clear plastic bottles are recyclable: green ones are not.

The airports have banned the sale of plastic water bottles as part of a new sustainability ... glass and plastic are partially mitigated by recycling. But activists typically fail to acknowledge ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more recycling tips, fun facts, humor ... Hawaiian Islands had ingested plastic. Yes, all of them. And bottle caps were on that list.

Inverse spoke with experts affiliated with the report, plastic reduction advocates, as well as the recycling industry, to break down the facts behind ... percent of the bottles I put in my bin ...

In the world of recycling, plastics are one of the least valuable materials. In North Carolina, PET plastic (the kind found in disposable water bottles and peanut butter jars) sells for about 14 ...

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 ...

During those years, the company used another chemical recycling technique that it said was limited because it required clean and clear plastic bottles, which are more expensive to buy than other ...

If passed, Nadeau said the bill would make a significant impact in the District's recycling ecosystem Nadeau said plastic bottles alone account for 60% of the weight of all trash in the Anacostia ...

The city of Houston is asking residents to leave plastic water bottles intact when placing them in recycling bins. According to city officials, crushed or flattened plastic bottles can confuse the ...

Rhode Island legislators introduced three bills to address plastic bottle waste ... improve the state’s lagging recycling rate. One measure, a so-called bottle bill, targets used beverage ...