The tax breaks the Lockport Industrial Development Agency granted for a controversial plastics plant have expired because the ...

Founder Rose Tourje had a bleak realization during her successful career in commercial interior design when ... repurposing, and recycling—all while benefiting nonprofits, public agencies ...

Urban Ore in Berkeley isn’t just another stop on California’s secondhand circuit; it’s a legendary treasure hunting ground where the environmentally conscious and the bargain-obsessed converge in ...

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So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics, I have been exploring potential solutions. In cities that use single-stream recycling ...

How did we get here? For decades, we’ve been misled about plastic. Those blue recycling bins and chasing-arrow symbols gave us the illusion that the plastic we use is being recycled and repurposed.

Turkey’s pivot to exporting secondary plastics has been disrupting its recycling ecosystem. “We have a waste war here,” said Cesur Caca, communications director of Pagev, Turkey’s major ...

The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large ...

A new study out of China backs what many have already said: global plastic recycling is stagnant in the face of rapidly growing production. Researchers at Tsinghua University peg the global ...

Global plastic recycling rates are now stuck at under 10 per cent, a comprehensive new study shows. Plastic production has exploded in the meantime, creating a "pressing global environmental ...

A plastics recycling advocacy organization is calling for more government intervention as a way to help kickstart the use of post-consumer resin. The U.S. Plastics Pact, which an outgrowth of the ...