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

Scientists are finding microplastics in human brain tissue. Learn what that means for mental and neurological health, and ...

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

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 ...

Following loud community opposition, a North Bay plastics recycling startup announced Thursday that it would be moving its equipment out of a Sonoma County business park "within weeks" and is likely ...

Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo has broken ground on its inaugural 75-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The project—one of three awarded to the company ...

Tokyo — Honda Motor Co. has developed a new chemical sorting technology designed to extract high-purity plastics from end-of-life vehicles, aiming to expand closed-loop recycling in automotive ...

Plastics are everywhere — in packaging, construction, electronics, and almost every corner of daily life. But they don’t break down easily. A single plastic item can take up to 500 years to decompose.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, ...

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

From a new plastic recycling process to an old fossil discovered from the dinosaur era, Raluca Ellis, senior scientist at the Ontario Science Centre, joins Miranda Anthistle to break down this week’s ...