That instinct to drop anything plastic, paper or cardboard into the recycling bin is hard to shake, but it's also one of the ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a ...

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

Conflict in Iran has raised the cost of oil and downstream products like virgin plastic. That's a boon for recycled plastic, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...

India's plastic waste problem is being tackled by PolyCycl's innovative chemical recycling. The technology transforms ...