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It's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment ...

Greenpeace USA surveyed 367 recycling facilities across the country and found that only two kinds of plastic bottles and jugs are really getting recycled. Meanwhile, many U.S. consumer companies and ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

The bottle, which has the brand name engraved onto the recycled plastic, is part of Evian’s effort to become fully circular by 2025. When a plastic bottle ends up in a recycling plant, the label ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Jennie Romer, the EPA’s deputy assistant administrator for ...

Dear Heloise: Hey there. I wanted to write in with two hints from a boy in Illinois. My mother lives alone, and I’ve asked her to turn on the front porch light when she goes to bed, then turn it off ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new "plastic-free" logo launched in Britain on Wednesday will allow shoppers to identify products with plastic packaging, as companies come under growing ...