The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Scottish students earn 20 pence per recycled can through campus vending machines in pilot testing deposit return technology ...

Inside landfills, researchers have found rare but naturally occurring enzymes that break down plastic. By tweaking one of these enzymes, scientists at Carbios, a France-based startup, have figured out ...

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

Decades before it was fashionable, this female founder persisted in her belief that she could turn plastic bottles into beautiful textiles–and that people would realize it was the right way to do ...

Bottling partner Swire Coca-Cola starts using locally sourced recycled PET from Hong Kong supplier New Life Plastics.

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Prioritizing clear labels, circular materials and policies that support recycling infrastructure helps to build stronger ...

So many brands are creating lines of clothes made from recycled plastic water bottles. How sustainable are they really? If it feels like this phenomenon burst out of nowhere, that’s because it’s grown ...

To encourage more recycling, the U.K. taxes single-use plastic products containing less than 30% recycled material. But aside from a manufacturer's word, there isn't an easy way to verify this ...

Michigan’s dime deposit program is almost 50 years old and is always in the news because of efforts to expand or repeal it.

“Around four years ago, we as a company were on this trajectory of manufacturing more and more, and I just had a little bit of a breakdown about that–I didn’t want to keep doing this unless we could ...