By bricking your plastic, the company claims it’ll no longer jam recycling equipment the way individual plastic bags often do ...

Developing and following these rules is a new frontier for states with EPR for packaging laws. Speakers at the Plastics Recycling Conference offered a snapshot of what’s at stake as recyclers prepare ...

City of Roses Disposal & Recycling, the Portland firm that runs the COR Transfer Station, improperly discarded about 17 tons of plastic into a landfill between July 2024 and August 2025, even as it ...

The Metro regional government is scrutinizing the work of a prominent Portland disposal company it hired to sustainably ...

A new solar-driven method transforms plastic waste and microplastics into acetic acid, turning pollution into a valuable chemical.

But whether refilling actually makes a difference depends on how these systems are used and what they replace. Scores of ...

A Monmouth County woman and Clean Water Action are fighting against single-use plastic pollution across New Jersey. Here's how.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that California’s attorney general can face a defamation lawsuit over comments attacking ...

As of Thursday afternoon, and with two days left to go, an estimated 150-180 trash bags of recycling had been collected so far in the plastic water bottle return that ran Feb. 16-21, said Larry Large, ...

You know that little triangle with the number inside that you see on practically every plastic item you've ever touched? The one that made you feel good about tossing your yogurt container into the ...

Fans invited to bring plastic bags for recycling; bags will be transformed into TimberTech® Composite Decking, now part ...

ExxonMobil's third advanced recycling unit at Baytown is now operational, increasing capacity to process up to ~250 million pounds of plastic waste annually. We’re on track to reach approximately 450 ...