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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Tsinghua University in China said the rate of recycling had barely budged even as plastic production had exploded, presenting a "pressing global environmental challenge." ...

PORSMOUTH NH - There has been a major push in recent years to get people to recycle. Nearly every town or city in the state has a local program. Unfortunately, so little plastic is recycled ...