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

The Plastic Reduction Alliance played a game of “Is it recyclable?” Wednesday night. “For the longest time, I thought any plastics I take into my home, I just take to the plastics recycling facility ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson's drug, ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...

Walk into any of the stores operated by the four major supermarket chains serving the Boise area, and near an entrance you’ll find a bin inviting you to drop off plastic store bags and other soft ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic ...