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

When you buy a new iPhone, Apple takes it back when you're done with it. When you finish a bottle of Coke in Germany, the manufacturer pays for its recycling. So why does your 4,000-pound SUV – ...

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 ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

There’s no question that Amazon is known for its packaging. Boxes and mailers with the ubiquitous smile logo now dot the porches of every neighborhood in the country. And with the company’s 2017 ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

A. J. Jacobs, writer for The New York Times, shared his attempt to avoid plastic in an article published Jan. 15, 2023: “On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products—or ...

For years, sorting bottles from cardboard, scrubbing out jars, and dragging the blue bin to the curb felt like the right ...

Last August, my team at Air Alliance Houston placed Airtag trackers in single-use plastic waste deposited at various city of Houston municipal recycling drop-off sites. We had been told the plastic ...

Jonathan Quinn became the U.S. Plastics Pact president and CEO in July 2024, replacing Emily Tipaldo, the organization’s first executive director. “I lead a diverse consortium of stakeholders united ...