This legal action sets a precedent for other state attorneys general to follow. As the litigation piles up on big oil for ...

A groundbreaking plastic made with E. coli can be infinitely recycled and outperforms traditional fossil fuel-based plastics.

Disposable health care items usually consist of several types of plastic that cannot be recycled with today's technology. In addition, the items must be considered contaminated after use ...

Multinational food company Mondelēz International has revealed plans to incorporate recycled plastic derived from advanced ...

Countries like Malaysia import many metric tons of plastic waste from Europe each year, paying a few pennies per kilo. This ...

Last year, the company had to adjust its plan for making bricks from recycled plastic bottles after discovering "the material didn't reduce carbon emissions," a Lego Group spokesperson told FOX ...

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 ...

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 ...

The volume of e-waste produced around the world each year is set to more than double to 110 million tonnes by 2050 Plastic in waste ... on the benefits of recycled plastics in electronics ...

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 ...

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 ...