Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

To combat that statistic, researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a promising process that uses a common, ...

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs.

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

A new bill cosponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, could give Washingtonians refunds for glass and plastic, to boost recycling. OLYMPIA — In another effort to boost recycling in Washington, a ...