Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

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Flexible plastics, which account for more than 50% of the plastic packaging market, are among the most challenging materials to recycle at scale. Their lightweight nature and complex structure make ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

National Harbor, Md. — This isn't 2014, and The Recycling Partnership is not interested in acting like it is. The nonprofit curbside recycling advocacy group has now been around 11 years under current ...

The Washington-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has announced the first-ever Recycling in Action month, a new initiative the organization says will increase visibility into the plastic ...

In the searing heat at the ACAMTC recycling cooperative south of São Paulo, in Três Corações, Brazil, a group of recycling waste workers known as Catadores prepared bales of discarded plastic for ...