To encourage more recycling, the U.K. taxes single-use plastic products containing less than 30% recycled material. But aside from a manufacturer's word, there isn't an easy way to verify this ...

On a typical trash collection day, neighborhoods are lined with blue or green recycling bins filled with plastic water bottles and milk jugs, beer bottles and aluminum cans. There are also takeout ...

Baltimore's Waterfront Partnership demonstrated bottle bill benefits, paying 10 cents per recycled container. 300 ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." A research team led by ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." A research team led by ...

Americans recycled more plastics bottles in 2009 for the 20th straight year, although the overall recycling rate remains at just 28%. The amount of bottles recycled rose 46 million lb (2%) in 2009, ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

On trails in Grand Canyon National Park, I mostly pick up empty water bottles. It seems a job that will never be obsolete. Shouldn’t we have learned by now that refilling water bottles is the way ...

Is recycling worth it? Take a deep dive into Raleigh recycling and learn about what and how to recycle, what happens to the things we recycle and much more. To fully understand the recycling process ...