For more information, here's which takeout containers are recyclable. Recycling plastic might be more difficult than you think. You need to rinse out any food and liquids (other than water ...

Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by councils across the UK has left them confused over what can be recycled and ...

Many plastic packaging materials are currently difficult to recycle. In an effort to change this, TNO is researching new circular packaging solutions. If we ultimately want to make packaging 100% ...

“Increasing attention on recycling has amplified the need for converting plastic into oil for the purposes of obtaining raw materials for new plastic,” says Asami, and HiCOP’s oil also ...

UK consumers use around 13 billion plastic drinks bottles a year but more than three billion are not recycled Firms responsible for a significant proportion of supermarket plastic packaging have ...

Materials researchers have developed a new technique to successfully determine the recycled contents of plastic products. To encourage more recycling, some countries are taxing single-use plastic ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

The world has a single-use plastic problem. And it’s more of a mountain than a molehill. Single-use plastics or disposables are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.

The European Commission wants to reduce the environmental impact of packaging by mandating that producers use a minimum amount of recycled plastic in new packaging placed on the market. The EU is ...

Their use has increased sharply in recent years, and there are currently no methods for recycling such plastic medical waste. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden ...

But avoid recycling mail that includes foils, metalized stamping or plastic laminations. Anything covered in glitter also shouldn’t be put in the recycling bin. If envelopes have plastic address ...

A Texas environmentalist curious about the fate of her city's recycling dropped Apple AirTags in with her plastics to see what happened to them after they were picked up. Brandy Deason, a climate ...