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

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

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

There's a particular kind of guilt that arrives quietly. It's the pause before tossing a plastic clamshell container into the ...

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

The issue of plastic waste is not going anywhere. In fact, globally, we continue to generate more of it. In the EU, plastic packaging waste alone makes up about 16 million tons a year — and less than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

People bring coffins, broken Lamps, and plastic lessons to the Bay Area's zero-waste movement.

Recycled polyester activewear and swimwear are now everywhere. Major global brands sell leggings, swimsuits and puffer ...

The government is moving to cut the use of plastic as much as possible and expand recycling, accelerating its push away from ...