Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, ...

UMN researchers tested recycled-plastic pipes under a Minnesota highway — finding they held up like new plastic while cutting ...

An engineering graduate is turning thousands plastic cups into soft sweaters and beanies using a kind of "yarn" made from the plastic.

Recycled Plastic Products Market is projected to reach USD 132.5 Bn by 2035, driven by sustainability goals and rising demand ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Earth Week and the ABC7 I-Team and ABC News have new details on their efforts to track plastic bags. A previous joint investigation found that several plastic bags which were ...

Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as takeout containers, plastic bags and, of course, face masks. At the same time, we're recycling ...

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...

Trying to recycle the unrecyclable only clogs the system more. Here are seven takeout containers that belong in the garbage.

Federal government says it’s working to phase out single-use plastics and transform Australia’s packaging rules.