Nova Chemicals’ LLDPE film recycling facility in Connersville, Indiana, now has four operational lines and is continuing to ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

Speakers at the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference in Chicago discussed plastic film recycling initiatives and ...

People have long been told that recycling is an effective way to prevent pollution and help the environment. But rumors that the plastics you put in the recycling bin wind up in a landfill instead ...

According to the American Chemistry Council, if America dominates the coming advanced recycling industry the same way it has ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

Plastic recycling has failed – by design. Globally, only about 9 per cent of plastics ever made have been recycled. In Australia, recycling rates for flexible plastics remain near zero, and new ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Walk into any of the stores operated by the four major supermarket chains serving the Boise area, and near an entrance you’ll find a bin inviting you to drop off plastic store bags and other soft ...