Houston urges residents not to crush plastic bottles before recycling, ensuring sorting machines process them properly.

Nearly 1.3 billion pounds of plastic waste is set to enter the world’s oceans and waterways after Coca-Cola scrapped 25% ...

New research from circular economy and materials management consultant RRS confirms that used beverage cans (UBCs) move from ...

The figure of more than 2.8 billion PET plastic bottles and aluminum cans returned in 2024 means the average person in Sweden recycled 271 such containers in 2024. Norrköping, Sweden-based Pantamera, ...

The floppy material used to manufacture Ziploc bags (or other single-use snack bags) means they can't be recycled in the same process as hard plastic bottles. The Styrofoam used in packing ...

The category of recyclable plastics is narrower than most people realize, he explained — hard plastic containers like soda bottles and milk jugs can be recycled; but flimsier items like plastic ...

Pyrolysis breaks down plastic and generates potentially useful oil − but it’s not a silver bullet for the planet.

PITTSBURGH, March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a quick, safe, and simple way to compact and recycle aluminum cans and plastic bottles," said an inventor, from Spiritwood ...

Current methods to recycle plastics ... technologies that can process different types of plastic waste. Most of the technologies that we have today melt down plastic bottles and downcycle them ...

WASHINGTON — By 2030 Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 602,000 metric tons of plastic waste entering the world ...

Scientists developed a new method for breaking down one of the most common plastics to a byproduct that can be upcycled into ...