Only about five percent of plastics produced annually are recycled in the U.S. So how much plastic is five percent? And will recycling that amount make a difference?

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

Exxon Mobil has touted 'advanced recycling' as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide in the plastic crisis. California says it's a lie.

The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic ...

The Recycling Partnership wants to use Recycle Check as a way to provide consumers with the information contained in the group's National Recycling Database.

Unfortunately, plastic recycling is more complicated than we’ve been led to believe since plastic first rose to prominence in the 1960s.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / For decades, the world has struggled to balance the economics of plastic ...

Chemical recycling, also known as advanced recycling, is an umbrella term for industrial processes designed to use plastic waste as a feedstock to create fuel and new plastic products.

Plastic producers are investing heavily in controversial methods of boosting stagnant recycling rates to repair the public's growing distrust.

An ABC News report finds some plastic bags deposited in retail recycling programs end up in landfills or incinerated.

A Texas environmentalist found that her recycling was going to a local facility that has been hoarding plastics yet to be recycled.

IRG maintains that a plastics recycling plant in Erie, which would produce recycled plastics for use as cleaner-burning alternative to coke for steel production, will reduce pollution and create ...