Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

Plastics are everywhere — in packaging, construction, electronics, and almost every corner of daily life. But they don’t break down easily. A single plastic item can take up to 500 years to decompose.

Another online resource is launching to help consumers find flexible plastic film recycling locations around the United States. FFRA seeks to improve flexible film recycling rates through improving ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), Washington, has formed the Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a collaborative effort designed to unite the polystyrene (PS) and expandable polystyrene ...

Neste Oyj, an oil refining and marketing company headquartered in Espoo, Finland, has completed a life cycle assessment (LCA) on the environmental impacts of chemical recycling as incorporated into ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Just ahead of this year’s Super Bowl in February, the City of Phoenix, Arizona ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...