A report by Beyond Plastics says local governments in NY could save more than $1billion if companies used less plastic in their packaging.

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is a central component of Democratic lawmakers’ climate efforts this ...

Beyond Plastics released a report on the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act that showed it could save New ...

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, ...

Plastics have also eased the world’s reliance on older materials, and on the living beings from which many of them came.

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Unfortunately, a bad bill has gotten worse. The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is opposing SB 1822, as it preempts local regulation of auxiliary containers — taking away key tools of ...

International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, ...

Globally, around 400 million tons of plastic waste is generated annually, with a historical accumulation exceeding 7 billion tons, yet less than 10 percent is recycled, according to the Nonmetallic ...

State officials have reported some progress getting people to divert things out of the waste stream, but CT’s trash problem ...

This is about residents of the state of Connecticut changing their behavior and making better decisions about material management, from their homes to the curb to the transfer station,” said ...