Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled.

The trajectory of prices for four of the five commodity resins — polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and ...

April 22 — residents will be able to start bringing food scraps to four stationed drop off points across town. The program is intended to help West Hartford decrease the amount of waste it produces — ...

The Government of India has approved 10 plastic parks to consolidate and synergize efforts in managing used plastic waste ...

New Zealand sends most of its recycling to places like Indonesia and Malaysia – where communities are living with the ...

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Residents allege that fires erupt every few days in the vicinity, triggered by the unchecked burning of horticulture, municipal and scrap waste ... burning e-waste, plastic, biomass—it ...

India requires about 1,200 kilo tonnes of rigid PET every year. Of this, 30% or 360 kilo tonnes of recycled plastic is required this upcoming fiscal, according to industry estimates. Adding ...

The Sentencing Council has rejected the Justice Secretary's demand to scrap new guidelines at the centre of a 'two-tier' row. In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the chairman of the Sentencing Council ...

The U.S. imported a record amount of plastic scrap in 2024, amounting to nearly half a million metric tons, with PET scrap making up about half of that, according to published reports looking at U ...