Every one of us creates huge amounts of plastic waste. Whether from soda bottles, water bottles, or milk jugs, plastic bottles account for a huge amount of household waste. However, you needn't ...

Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

The growing demand for solutions to plastic pollution helps explain why recent successes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have garnered media attention. In addition, ORNL’s patented technologies for ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

Pending policies that demand more recycling cannot offset problems of high costs and competition from cheap virgin polymers ...