It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 8, 2026 / The plastics market is entering a new phase-one where recycled ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 7, 2026 / As geopolitical tensions and ongoing conflicts continue to unsettle ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

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Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Governments worldwide are imposing stricter recycled content and packaging rules, while new technologies promise breakthroughs in plastic waste processing. The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste ...

Petrochemical companies pitched chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic waste crisis. And the City of Houston ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But there’s another oil-related product that often gets overlooked: plastic. Most ...