You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

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

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead - In 2018 alone, over 3 million tons (2.7 ...