6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

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In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

ALBANY — Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth ...

When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone raised in the late-20th and ...

Addressing plastic pollution isn’t easy, especially when it comes to electronics plastics, but Synergy Electronics Recycling (SER), an end-of-life electronics recycler headquartered in Madison, North ...

As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...