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

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

An economic analysis reveals that redirecting just half of America's plastic waste from landfills to recycling facilities could create more than 173,000 jobs and generate nearly $49 billion in annual ...

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

For years, sorting bottles from cardboard, scrubbing out jars, and dragging the blue bin to the curb felt like the right thing to do. It felt like participation. But at some point, the nagging feeling ...

Not many pill bottles are getting recycled in the U.S. despite them being made of commonly recyclable material. A new Closed Loop Partners report calls for collaboration across the value chain to ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it’s sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People frequently toss paper, plastic, and metal in without a second glance. This well ...