It's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 13, 2026 / The economics of plastic are entering a new phase. What was once ...

A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by researchers at the University of Bath. In contrast to conventional mechanical ...

California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable -- the most ambitious ...

Why recycling falls short: Despite decades of campaigns, most plastics are still landfilled, burned, or pollute oceans due to ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S. The report cites ...

Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as takeout containers, plastic bags and, of course, face masks. At the same time, we're recycling ...

The technology company says its Raman laser spectroscopy analyzer can be helpful to plastics recyclers, including those handling black plastic.