Plastic bag fees and bans are effective in limiting debris on U.S. shorelines, a new study reports, but even places with bag ...

Plastic items with resin codes 1, 3, 6, and 7 should be avoided in the garden as they can leach plastic additives into your ...

"Norway is the only country in the world that has a similar recycling lottery, and their bottle return rate is close to 100 ...

Glass recycling is back in Seattle after a nearly year-long hiatus. Bottled-beverage drinkers kept putting their empties in ...

Who doesn't love creatively repurposed items? They save you money and give you the opportunity to customize your space.

A Lee County nurse, Trish Barron, is transforming plastic waste into a community effort. Barron has launched a nonprofit ...

We've rounded up several ways you can reuse plastic jugs and bottles. And the best part, these super-resourceful ideas don’t ...

The debate included discussion of recycling efforts and the ... dozen communities have banned single-used plastic bottles that contain less than a gallon of noncarbonated, unflavored liquids ...

Only about 9% of the plastic ... recycling streams. Symbol 1 – Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, widely used in soda bottles. Symbol 2 – High-density polyethylene, or HDPE, commonly used in ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the overall recycling rate for plastics is 8.7%. About a third of milk jugs and plastic bottles are recycled – a higher rate than other ...

CHICAGO – If you partook in any St. Patrick’s Day Weekend festivities in Chicago this past weekend, chances are you likely saw people carrying around plastic gallon milk jugs filled with food ...