Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Reclaimers of a variety of resins talked about broader market struggles and considered ways to grow domestic demand for PCR.

Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

By bricking your plastic, the company claims it’ll no longer jam recycling equipment the way individual plastic bags often do ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...

Manchester study argues recycling terms like upcycling mislead stakeholders and hinder sustainable plastic waste management progress ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.