Ridwell, a third-party recycling company, is offering a new service for hard-to-recycle plastics in Sonoma County and the city of Napa. The service includes a mail-in program where users send ...

The world is drowning in plastic. Producers are peddling a “solution” that is more like an illusion. Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag? But the plastics industry is working to ...

Newcastle University engineers are at the forefront of adhesive technology that promises to change how we recycle. They have ...

AKRON, Ohio, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterra announces successful conversion of hard-to-recycle plastics, collected via the Hefty ReNew™ program and pre-processed through Firstar Fiber, Inc., ...

Is plastic recyclable? Learn about recycling codes for plastic, how many times can plastic be recycled, and types of plastic decomposition including bacteria-eating plastic and plastic-eating fungus ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

A recycling expert shares six surprising things you should never recycle and also explains why you should avoid doing so.

Rumpke Waste & Recycling and the Hefty ReNew program have announced the expansion of the Hefty ReNew program to the region. Hefty ReNew is a hard-to-recycle plastics recovery program for residents and ...

Plastic Back, an Israeli startup specializing in low-temperature chemical recycling, is working with an undisclosed recycler based in Connecticut to address hard-to-recycle plastics. According to ...

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