In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in February after opening in 2022 at a cost of £7m, while rival Viridor closed ...

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 ...

One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before ...

DASHI STREET, PANYU DISTRICT, GUANGZHOU CHINA, GUANGZHOU, CHINA, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global ...

European nations voted Friday to allow for chemical recycling to play a larger role in the production of plastic bottles, ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

It’s time for some trash talk. That’s because some Lake County communities are beginning a new program impacting garbage collections. The Hefty ReNew program kicking off in October will be giving ...

A story of innovation where recycled plastic waste is transformed into Bluetooth speakers and affordable prosthetic sockets, ...

A recent op-ed by the Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson argues that California’s slow progress toward recycling ...

A recycling expert shares six surprising things you should never recycle and also explains why you should avoid doing so.