MIAMI - America generates about 97 billion pounds of plastic waste every year – the most on the planet. In the U.S., one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups is Starbucks – 75% of its ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

Plastic is ubiquitous. Around 1m plastic water bottles are sold every minute and 5trn plastic bags are used around the world every year, according to the un’s Environment Programme. Half of all ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Here's the deal: Recycling isn't just about good intentions. It's requires a little prep work, too, which includes actually rinsing out that soda can, taking the plastic handle off that old busted pan ...

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...

Plastic is a key component of modern life. This cheap, tough, yet pliant material is everywhere you look, from kitchen ...

After reading the first part of our recycling guide, you’re a sorting expert. You’ve put your pizza box in the paper recycling, almond-milk container in with the metal, plastic and glass, and ...

Research Fellow, Ethical Consumption, Revolution Plastics Institute, University of Portsmouth Cressida Bowyer receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Medical ...

Ridwell, a third-party recycling company, is offering a new service for hard-to-recycle plastics in Sonoma County and the city of Napa. The service includes a mail-in program where users send ...

The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large blue ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...