Since 1989 The Plastic Lumber Company has been committed to providing the finest products from recycled plastics. Challenged by the idea of building a company based upon environmentally sound ...

Recycling can be confusing enough as it is. To help, here's what those little numbers in recycling symbols actually mean.

Of course, such technology costs money. Which gets us to the crux of the issue with the recycling of plastic: it’s got less to do with the science and more to do with the economics. The bald ...

Marginal benefit and marginal cost are two measures of how the cost or value of a product changes. Marginal benefit impacts the customer, while marginal cost impacts the producer. Companies need ...

The plastics industry is backing new federal legislation that includes provisions favorable to chemical recycling and that would set a national standard of 30 percent recycled content in plastic ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

based Trex Co. Inc. has launched an online national directory to make it easier for Americans to recycle plastic film waste. The goal of the NexTrex Plastics Recycling DropOff Directory is to ...

Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you ...

The issue has gained increasing attention since 2018 when China banned the importing of recycling waste and stopped accepting the West’s unwanted plastic. Since 1992, China has received 106 ...

Prior to this new program, those wanting to dispose of those plastic grocery bags had to drop them off at supermarkets, which in turn would send them to specialty recycling centers. For those of ...