Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth of ...

That means only about 5% to 6% of U.S. plastic waste is recycled, down from a peak of 9.5% in 2014 and 8.7% in 2018, before China stopped accepting America's plastic refuse for either recycling ...

And of that waste, a staggering 6.3 billion tons never made it to a recycling bin—a figure that stunned the scientists who crunched the numbers in 2017. No one knows how much unrecycled plastic ...

If you're a Gen X-er or younger, you've probably been told all your life to recycle anything and everything recyclable. That includes cans, bottles, glass, paper products, and so on. It's easy ...

A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to better-quality recycled plastic, a new study has shown. The adhesives used to ...