Global consulting firm says reprocessors in the U.S. imported 33 percent more PET scrap in 2023 compared with the year before. U.S. Census Bureau tracking indicates U.S. imports of plastic scrap ...

New bill aims to boost plastic recycling by removing regulatory barriers that have slowed industry investment and growth ...

Have you tossed plastic into a recycling bin recently? There’s a large chance that material won’t be recycled. That’s ...

Canadian organization plans to assess and enable recyclability of plastic scrap generated at 10 construction site projects in western Canada. Garron Dalby, who is serving as a site monitor as part of ...

One of the leading UK recyclers, Biffa, claims 5 400 jobs could be created if the country stopped exporting plastic packaging ...

“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.