A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

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 ...

Plastics recyclers and PET resin maker Indorama are part of a coalition urging Rhode Island to adopt a combination bottle bill and extended producer responsibility law, calling it the best shot at ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

Carbios, a France-based company that uses biological technologies to recycle plastic and textiles, and international cosmetics brand L’Occitane en Provence, also based in France, have partnered to ...

The city of Houston is asking residents to leave plastic water bottles intact when placing them in recycling bins. According to city officials, crushed or flattened plastic bottles can confuse the ...

Environmental and consumer rights organisations are taking legal action against Nestlé, Danone, and The Coca-Cola Company, over recyclable claims made about their plastic bottles. They have raised an ...