Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

How to recycle plastic Recycling plastic might be more difficult than you think. You need to rinse out any food and liquids (other than water) from the containers before you can put them in the bin.

Instead of tossing plastic bottles in the recycling bin, consider saving them to build a one-of-a-kind furniture piece that's ...

The concept of the 3R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle has been central to our pursuit of sustainability, with the plastic industry ...

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your recycling bin.

You can check which items can and cannot be recycled for your specific program on your municipal page. Often, that means checking the recycling code stamped on the plastic next to the recycling icon.

The FDA further advises manufacturers to conduct “surrogate testing,” which involves challenging recycled materials with, or submerging them into, different classes of hazardous chemicals that could ...