Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false ...

Bill sponsors say a bottle bill could help alleviate pollution that has long affected communities of color. It calls for a 10 ...

The D.C. City Council introduced new legislation Jan. 15 to increase the cost of purchasing bottled beverages with the ...

Instead of buying a bottle of body wash, use bar soap, which has less packaging and is typically less expensive per use than ...

The new government deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans will give people a financial incentive to bring their ...

Eastman gives new life to hard-to-recycle polyester, such as colored shampoo bottles, takeout containers, textiles and fruit ...

The Beer Snake—that magnificent slinky plastic stretch of hundreds of emptied beer cups stacked up by golf fans at the 16th ...

The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of colourful packaging, but most of it is made of virgin materials. So what happens to ...

When Whatcom County residents learned recently that trash and recycling hauler Sanitary Service Co. wasn’t accepting ...

The government has pledged to "clean up Britain" with a new deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans - and is ...

The bill would add a refundable 10-cent deposit to the price of beverage containers ... bottles leach microplastics into the river. Birds, turtles and fish eat or get entangled in plastic trash.