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.) ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." A research team led by ...

European nations voted Friday to allow for chemical recycling to play a larger role in the production of plastic bottles, ...

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...

The Wayne County Commission is hosting plastic bottle return events starting Monday, February 16.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recycling is a necessary step in keeping applicable items out of the landfill. Emma also showed how they clean and sanitize the ...