a group of recycling waste workers known as Catadores prepared bales of discarded plastic for transport. As the group of mostly women worked, they spoke humbly of how important their work is to ...
Recycling plastic isn't working. The figure most often cited is that only nine per cent of the world's plastic has ever been recycled. That statistic is taken from a 2017 study looking at how much ...
Not all plastics are equal -- some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in ...
PLASTIC ODYSSEY, a French nongovernment organization, is seeking to tap local partners to expand its plastic recycling micro-factories in the Philippines. “We are working on the reduction and ...
Vietnam is major importer in global plastic scrap trade It imports more plastic waste than it can recycle Excess plastic is dumped in landfills or released into environment MINH KHAI, Vietnam ...
This so-called plastic recycling "craft village," an hour's drive from Vietnam's capital Hanoi, is where some of the plastic sorted for recycling in Japan, America and Europe ends up for final ...
When it comes to recycling plastics, size matters. Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, said Susan Collins, president of ...
Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said.
Witness the complete process of making plastic bags for storage, from raw material preparation to the final product. This ...
Not all plastics are equal—some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in ...
Hays has one of the highest participation rates among Kansas's 40 or so municipal recycling programs. About 80% of Hays ...