Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Enzymatic recycling has gained traction in recent years as a greener alternative to traditional plastic recycling techniques, ...

A new enzymatic process cuts costs by 74 percent, slashes chemical use, and recycles PET plastic cleaner than oil-based ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

After 20 years of operation, a national online recycling directory for plastic bags and plastic films has been taken offline, six months after an ABC News investigation.. The Film Drop-Off ...

Alterra president Jeremy DeBenedictis sees the facility as a solution to plastic pollution, seeks to ease neighbors' worries ...

Why recycling plastic isn't as effective as you think, according to industry critics 01:57. Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a ...

When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone raised in the late-20th ...

Plastic recycling does not work and will never work. The United States in 2021 had a dismal recycling rate of about 5 percent for post-consumer plastic waste, ...

The Howard County Hearing Examiner sided with neighbors who appealed the county's decision to allow a new plastic recycling ...

A study of one recycling facility in the United Kingdom estimated anywhere between 6 to 13 percent of the plastic processed could end up being released into water or the air as microplastics.