Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

Just 9% of all plastic waste ever created has been recycled, researchers estimate. —Last year, the U.S. exported 74,000 shipping containers of plastic waste to low-income countries, researcher Jan ...

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

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, ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

It is increasingly apparent that recycling is an imperfect solution for plastic waste. Recycling facilities lack sufficient sorting capability, many waste processors can’t actually compost ...

Instead of tossing those plastic containers that fruit comes in directly into the recycle bin, try repurposing them in ...