Oklahoma City advises residents to focus on recycling quality over quantity and to ensure plastics are clean before disposal.

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The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities." ...

A new industry-led soft plastics recycling scheme is gearing up to replace Australia’s failed REDcycle programme, aiming to revive collection, reduce waste to landfill and impose a levy on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The public isn’t too thrilled about that. About a third of Americans polled by PBS, ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) announced its participation in the newly formed We Recycle Working Group, a cross-sector coalition dedicated to strengthening America’s recycling systems, ...

A new battery recycling method developed by Illinois Grainger engineers removes scarce, expensive metals from old battery cathodes and coats them onto new cathodes in a single step. The result is ...

Industry organizations will offer a variety of in-person conferences in 2026 meant to cultivate conversations around some of the most pressing issues in the waste and recycling industry. These ...

After Jucélia do Rocio Chiquim got multiple procedures to treat her "eye sagging," she documented the bruising, swelling and more that accompanied her healing Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at ...

On Monday, SC Johnson — together with its long-time advocacy and impact partners Conservation International, EarthEcho International and Plastic Bank — launched an advocacy campaign aimed at rallying ...

Honda R&D Co. Ltd., headquartered in Waco, Japan, has developed a new chemical sorting technology designed to sort and extract reusable plastics from waste plastic parts that contain solid ...