1-2 are routinely recycled once they arrive at processing centers. Then there's the matter of plastic grocery bags, which several Texas municipalities outlawed until the Texas Supreme Court ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in ...

You are probably hoping to stick most of those into your recycling ... where you can, choose loose produce over plastic nets (citrus fruit, garlic, onions) or plastic bags (bananas, apples).

Plastic bags, bottles ... Traditional recycling methods often degrade plastic into lower-quality materials. So, a plastic ...

the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle isn't obvious. When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in ...

"The reality is that the thicker bags are difficult to recycle - and few are ever recycled - and they are seldom reused," ...

and can be recycled, they say. Dr Svetlana Boriskina, from the department of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, said plastic bags that nobody wants ...

Blue bins are provided for recycling paper, cardboard, cans, plastic, and glass. Other items such as electronics are collected separately for proper recycling. Items that can be recycled at ...

Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by councils across the UK has left them confused over what can be recycled and ...

31). Less than 6% of U.S. plastic is recycled. That’s because plastic is unrecyclable by design. Thousands of chemicals are used to make it. Different plastics have different chemicals ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

The proposed labels are “an obvious and transparent attempt by industry to circumvent California law,” said Howie Hirsch, a retired lawyer in California who has worked on several recycling-related ...