Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by councils across the UK has left them confused over what can be recycled and ...

But sometimes, the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle isn't obvious. When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a ...

UK consumers use around 13 billion plastic drinks bottles a year but more than three billion are not recycled Firms responsible for a significant proportion of supermarket plastic packaging have ...

The following cannot be recycled and should go in the trash: light bulbs, drinking glasses, flower vases, ceramics, chandeliers, and any copies of Billy Joel’s 1980 hit album, “Glass Houses.” Also ...

The world has a single-use plastic problem. And it’s more of a mountain than a molehill. Single-use plastics or disposables are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

But when it comes to the more than 200 pounds of plastic waste each of us generates per year, we only put about 15 percent of ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers and retailers are doing it. The trouble is, many of these initiatives ...

In 1950, global plastic production was around 2 million metric tons. In 2020, according to Statista, total global plastic production was around 367 million metric tons—and that was a slight ...

An engineer scoops a handful of tiny pellets out of a stainless-steel canister at a manufacturing plant in the Netherlands and rolls them around in his hand. The BB-sized pellets made at Quality ...