Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

Every one of us creates huge amounts of plastic waste. Whether from soda bottles, water bottles, or milk jugs, plastic bottles account for a huge amount of household waste. However, you needn't ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

(StatePoint) Have you tossed plastic into a recycling bin recently? There’s a large chance that material won’t be recycled. That’s according to a new report, which finds that after decades of being ...

The growing demand for solutions to plastic pollution helps explain why recent successes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have garnered media attention. In addition, ORNL’s patented technologies for ...

The EU on Tuesday unveiled proposals to help the European plastic recycling sector, which is struggling against competition from China and other parts of Asia.