Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

Take an inside look at the impressive recycling process where millions of plastic bottles are transformed into large PVC ...

Documenting the garbage along New Jersey beaches helps state lawmakers make policy decisions on plastic pollution, says this ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

Three options are going before lawmakers to boost RI's recycling of bottles, and two include options to return bottles for a ...

Carol Hagan McEntee has introduced legislation aimed at incentivizing recycling statewide. Hagan McEntee’s legislation — ...

The sustainability movement is gaining traction not just among consumers, but within entire retail supply chains.

"Our biggest concern is probably going to come in the form of retaliation against U.S. exports of our products," a recycling ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

and the mundane, such as bottle caps, straws and various children's toys. Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from these sites, according to Clean ...