Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

A large-scale soft plastics recycling facility at Taree is processing most of Australia's recycled soft plastics and stockpiled waste from the failed REDcycle scheme. Processed soft plastic is sent to ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are ...

Dow Chemical Co. and Brazilian multinational environmental solutions company Ambipar recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore business opportunities leveraging the value of ...

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National Harbor, Md. — This isn't 2014, and The Recycling Partnership is not interested in acting like it is. The nonprofit curbside recycling advocacy group has now been around 11 years under current ...

The recycled-content building products maker has cooperated with Plastic Beach to collect some 60 tons of plastic film. Since starting Plastic Beach in 2019, founder Matthew Clough has built what Trex ...