Soft, stretchy plastics, ubiquitous in grocery bags, bubble wrap, and various packaging, present a persistent environmental challenge. These materials are nearly impossible to avoid and even harder to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tossing every piece of takeout packaging into the blue bin might feel like the right move, but "wish-cycling" is often worse than ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. Credit - Hulton Archive/Epics—Getty Images Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may ...

There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally. To shift to ...

On June 21, 2018, Digital Journal warned the world would soon be dealing with a glut of plastic waste equivalent to 21 times the mass of the Great Pyramids at Giza, with no obvious strategy available ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. workers sorting plastic bottles - cazawi/Shutterstock Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even ...

People getting this wrong could find their bins are left uncollected - but a date has been set for a change ...

Waste management is a daily operational challenge for businesses of all sizes. Offices, warehouses, restaurants, retail ...

It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.