The City of Regina says 18 per cent of blue cart recycling contains things it shouldn’t — like chip bags, glass or styrofoam — risking jamming up machinery and even fines for residents and the city.

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Think about how many millions of plastic forks, napkins, straws, and condiment packets get handed out every single day to ...

As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and bags. But as these bins fill up quicker and quicker each ...

By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...

It’s official: Creality has released their filament recycling system, the Filament Maker M1 and Shredder R1. This release is not unexpected; Creality has been hinting about it for a while now. However ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.

Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected ...

A Portland recycling company with government deals worth millions routed over 17 tons of plastic into a dump rather than ...

A Hartlepool recycling plant had to remove more than 100,000 dangerous vapes in just two months. A boss at Biffa waste management is now appealing to vape users not to put the devices in their ...

In the sumnmer waste bin collections in parts of Suffolk will move to three-weekly, as nationwide recycling reforms are introduced – including the launch of new weekly food waste pick-ups. From June, ...

A binman has shared how you can ensure your trash is taken every single time by not putting four items into your recycling, otherwise you'll be paying a visit to the ...