While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

"Our biggest concern is probably going to come in the form of retaliation against U.S. exports of our products," a recycling ...

It's well understood in the recycling business that the flow of discarded PET bottles into clothing and carpeting is currently a one-way street. PET water and soda bottles can be recycled into ...

Three options are going before lawmakers to boost RI's recycling of bottles, and two include options to return bottles for a ...

Now you can use them to make money ... Face off: Should people be fined for not recycling? The crushed plastic bottles will end up at a new PET recycling plant that is expected to open in Hong ...

Albertans last year returned more than two billion, or 85 per cent, of all non-refillable beverage containers, reclaiming the ...

Why do plastic bags look and feel so different to plastic containers, such as soft drink bottles or yogurt tubs? The ...

Those who choose to throw these recyclable items in the trash are technically breaking the law. Here’s what to know.

Despite a highly successful 10-cent deposit program on beverage bottles and cans, Michigan has historically lagged behind other states in recycling overall. But that has improved in recent years.

An extended producer responsibility program would make producers responsible for recycling packaging materials ... on all purchases of drinks in bottles, cans, plastics and other recyclable ...