America's plastic catastrophe

America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled. Read More

Kickstart: Sustainable seating from packaging waste at the Olympics

About 80 percent of the material used for seating at two Olympic venues will come from post-consumer recycling bins near the facilities in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. The bulk of that ... Read More

Prices for recycled resins may rise through 2024

Emily Friedman, senior market editor at ICIS, pointed to a few key trends affecting recycled resin pricing during the recent Plastics ... consumer brand companies start up more programs to use ... Read More

Plastics Recycling Conference 2024: The more things change

We take a single-use product and recycle it into a durable product that will last 100 years.” “Durable items are what built recycling,” Saunders said, noting that PCR often offered a lower-cost raw ... Read More

Critics call out plastics industry over "fraud of plastic recycling"

"But the vast majority of plastics are not recycled." About 48 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the U.S. each year; only 5 to 6 percent of it is actually recycled, according to the ... Read More

9 Investigates: Plastic bags recycled in Central Florida found around the world

The fight to reduce plastic waste may not be delivered as promised, with plastic bags dropped off at grocery stores across the area to be recycled, instead ending up in landfills or in at least two ... Read More

What can be recycled? Your guide to recycling paper, plastic, glass, aluminum and more.

Get all the news you need in your inbox ... a Science Advances study found. Only 9% of all plastic waste ever created has been recycled. How2Recycle is trying to change this. Read More

Modern clothing has a plastics problem. Here’s how we got here – and what we can do about it

As sustainable alternatives become increasingly viable, we need to stop buying fast fashion and instead focus on choosing quality over quantity ... Read More

What we can VERIFY about how much plastic really gets recycled

Some plastics aren’t recyclable because they are so small they’ll fall into crevices within the recycling machinery, Clean River Recycling Solutions says. Many single-use plastics aren’t ... Read More

Q&A: Paper, plastics and penalties. How audits can improve curbside recycling

For decades, curbside recycling has been a fixture in U.S. neighborhoods as a way to empower ordinary citizens to protect their environment and reduce waste. It's a system, though, that relies on ... Read More