Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person unloads groceries from plastic grocery bags - Torgonskaya Tatiana/Shutterstock Plastic grocery bags can be hard to avoid.

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Those plastic bottles you toss right after using them? They can be upcycled into actually useful items in your kitchen, from ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

Scientists have discovered a way to convert widely used plastics into new materials with distinct properties that degrade ...

California has a pitiful record when it comes to recycling. Only about 9% of plastic gets recycled. The rest — bottles, cups, ties, get washed into our oceans, entangling sea birds and when they get ...

A team led by Virginia Tech researchers has developed a new method for upcycling plastics into high-value chemicals known as surfactants, which are used to create soap, detergent, and more. Plastics ...

Plastic grocery bags can be hard to avoid. Whether you forgot your usual reusable bags, your store ran out of paper bags temporarily, or paper bags just are not the norm in your area, it is shockingly ...