Hard-to-Recycle Materials

Large brand owners and manufacturers have formed an effort aimed at diverting millions of pounds of plastic material that could...

Two midsize jurisdictions are joining a program that collects plastics not currently accepted for recycling and sends them to energy...

Experts predict large-format lithium-ion batteries will show up more regularly in the waste stream in the coming years as their...

Top manufacturers, recycling stakeholders and environmental organizations want to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging because they don't believe it actually prevents...

This story has been updated. Three organizations are pushing to have their packaging types accepted at MRFs, but six nonprofit...

A new technology makes it possible for a ship to scoop up ocean plastics, convert them to diesel and use...

Great potential exists for increased film recovery in North America, where the residential film recovery rate sits at about 4...

California lawmakers have revised the state’s definition of PET to exclude PETG, meaning products made from the glycol-modified plastic are...

Anti-incineration activists are criticizing an industry program that diverts traditionally non-recycled plastics away from landfill and into energy-recovery facilities. In...

After producing 150,000 shampoo bottles made partially with recovered marine plastics, Procter & Gamble will now do the same thing...