The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) announces the second year of Recycling in Action—an initiative designed to show the public what happens after ...

For WUWM's "Beats Me" series, a listener asked which plastics are recyclable in Wisconsin. Turns out, it varies depending on ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

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 ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for ...

Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...

New chemical reactions aren't everyday phenomena, but that's exactly what researchers in Australia discovered, and it could ...