Online shopping creates millions of tons of packaging waste each year. During the two-day Amazon Prime event that took place in October, America ordered an estimated 260 million items. The shipping ...

A NEW marketing push to encourage recycling, backed by Woolies, has had an awkward launch after it encountered a China-sized problem. The reason? The bottom has just spectacularly fallen out of the ...

Look at the packaging of any food or consumer item in the U.S., and there’s a good chance you’ll see a black-and-white decal: the iconic “chasing arrows” recycling symbol, along with the web address ...

Recycle Across America labels include consistent fonts, colors and layouts while tailoring the content based on what local MRFs accept and can process. Consistent graphic design paired with content ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

When I was in Seattle for the 2012 TAPPI PLACE Conference (May 6-9; Grand Hyatt Seattle), there was an aspect of the city that stuck with me, and it wasn't the overabundance of Starbucks. All over the ...

Have you ever walked up to a trash bin and a recycling bin and felt confused on what goes where? Even if you work with plastics in some shape or another on a day-to-day basis, the answer is probably ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

Just because it has the recycling arrows on it, does not mean it's a recyclable product. NBC News' Ezra Kaplan explains how reading a recycling label correctly will help processing facilities save ...

In a letter to the EPA, 17 legislators made the case for implementing standardized labels developed by Recycle Across America. Seventeen legislators have asked the EPA to implement nationwide labeling ...

A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this ...