It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Most people assume that if it looks like plastic or cardboard, it's fair game, but a single grease-soaked pizza box or a ...

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

Investigative journalist John Stossel investigates why recycling plastic is counterproductive. He speaks with science writer John Tierney about why it would be cheaper and more environmentally ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, need to do more to reduce the amount of the waste going into landfills, ...