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We’ve all seen the little triangle of arrows on the bottoms of plastic bottles and other containers, intended to guide consumers to proper plastic recycling. But if you also have noticed the ...

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...

A report from the mayor’s office in Bayonne, N.J., says a nearly 10,000-ton increase in concrete recycling helped boost the town’s overall recycling rates by 66 percent from 2003 to 2004, according to ...

[This letter was submitted to The Atlantic in response to a May 30 column "Plastics recycling doesn't work and will never work."] I recently read the report on plastics recycling rates by The Last ...

PET thermoform recycling is making strides, but the road is long and many a footstep lay ahead. PET bottles could be considered a poster child for polymer recycling, with almost 30 percent of the ...

PLOVER, Wis. (WSAW) - If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, how about recycling properly? You can start by making sure you aren’t recycling items in plastic bags. The Portage County ...