Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

A recent report issued by Holland, Ohio-based Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI) says there may be “an opportunity to create a market for noncolored problematic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

Keep Louisiana Beautiful and Coca-Cola team up to recycle bottles and cans in 19 parishes during Love the Boot Week, aiming ...

PROVIDENCE – Looked at one way, Rhode Island isn’t doing a bad job with recycling. More than 70,000 tons of paper, plastics, glass and metals were sorted at the state’s central recycling center and ...