Curbside recycling, for the most part, still looks askance at flexible plastics because many material ... according to a chart in the report. Along with the 46 million pounds of mono-PE on the ...

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Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said.

Newsom scuttled the finalization of a landmark waste law, leading CalRecycle to propose new rules. Critics say the rules ...

The Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Act will guide the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a plastic waste reduction and recycling programme to improve the ...

Walmart also said that 82% of its global private-brand plastic packaging is designed for recycling. Walmart largely attributed increases in the weight of virgin plastic used to growth in product ...

Your mixed recycling contains lots of plastics—shampoo bottles, yogurt cups, milk jugs and more—but how much actually gets recycled? The answer isn’t what you want to hear. But knowing it ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...