Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

However, it doesn’t undermine the importance of recycling recyling bin, it is.... Sources: Scientific articles on plastic recycling from M. J. Stapleton, F. I. Hai et al., G. Suzuki et al., ...

The leading manufacturer of high-performance composite decking and railing is proud to announce the launch of the NexTrex ® Plastic Recycling Drop-Off Directory, the country’s only online ...

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Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

workers quickly closed a gate displaying a "no trespassing" sign. Behind the gate, deliveries of hundreds of thousands of pounds of plastic waste from residents' homes have piled up over the last ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...

In 2019, an agency within the US Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...