Ridwell CEO Ryan Metzger discusses his company's recycling efforts during a community meetup in Sebastopol, Calif., one of ...

The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S. The report cites ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

A team of Michigan State University researchers developed a new type of plastic that can be recycled and could replace this ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Earth Week and the ABC7 I-Team and ABC News have new details on their efforts to track plastic bags. A previous joint investigation found that several plastic bags which were ...

UMN researchers tested recycled-plastic pipes under a Minnesota highway — finding they held up like new plastic while cutting ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

A person recycles plastic flower trays at a Meijer garden center. Photo courtesy of Meijer. (Meijer) If this year’s gardening has resulted in a collection of plastic flower pots and trays sitting in ...

An engineering graduate is turning thousands plastic cups into soft sweaters and beanies using a kind of "yarn" made from the plastic.