The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

New bill aims to boost plastic recycling by removing regulatory barriers that have slowed industry investment and growth ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

"[The industry] has spent millions of dollars advertising, telling us, 'don't worry about all the plastic you're generating,'" said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental ...

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 ...