The Truth About Plastic Recycling examines the complexity and effectiveness of plastic recycling. Despite the plastic ...

“We put 50 billion garments into landfill every year in the US,” says Kristy Caylor, founder and CEO of For Days. And unfortunately, even recycling efforts aren’t always a clean solution. For example, ...

It’s nice that big problems can have really useful solutions. In Cañon City, Colorado, they’re getting students the experience they need for future jobs while promoting the practice of reducing, ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) is expanding its Recycling is Real advocacy campaign in a new video series spotlighting the recycling work taking place at Plastic Ingenuity in Madison, WI ...

Research out of Scotland suggests that the chopping, shredding, and washing of plastic in recycling facilities may turn as much as 6% to 13% of incoming waste into microplastics—tiny, toxic particles ...

For years, the plastics industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense and that petrochemical ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or bag, ...