The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announces the second year of Recycling in Action—an initiative designed to show the public what happens after ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and bags. But as these bins fill up quicker and quicker each ...

For WUWM's "Beats Me" series, a listener asked which plastics are recyclable in Wisconsin. Turns out, it varies depending on ...

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

New chemical reactions aren't everyday phenomena, but that's exactly what researchers in Australia discovered, and it could ...

A bill has been introduced in the Missouri House involving what is known as single-use plastics. GFL Environmental Inc.