he explained — hard plastic containers like soda bottles and milk jugs can be recycled; but flimsier items like plastic bags, straws and packaging typically are not. Advertisement Article continues ...

One of the simplest ways to start reducing your plastic footprint is by drinking from a reusable water bottle ... bags to the ...

Widespread confusion about the recycling requirements means that many sustainably minded people toss items in the single-stream bin that don’t belong there.

Materials researchers have developed a new technique to successfully determine the recycled contents of plastic products. To encourage more recycling, some countries are taxing single-use plastic ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building ... Around 5 billion tonnes of plastic has gone to landfill since the 1950s, and recycling efforts have only tackled 9 per cent ...

The main question was if 20 HK cents were enough of a reward for people to turn in their plastic bottles. “Today, the behaviour is not towards recycling, and we are trying to change that ...

As plastic waste builds up, New York is turning from recycling to reduction, according to a recent report. Many assume most ...