Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a key material in bottles, packaging, and clothing fibers, is notoriously difficult to ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern.

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded ...

What it costs: If you’re dealing with a one-off product that TerraCycle handles, the service is free. The all-in-one box runs ...

Adidas, a global shoe and apparel maker, uses ocean plastics to produce sneakers, and the clothing brands H&M and Patagonia have put their money into recycled polyester collection. They collect ...

I recently had the chance to chat with nearly 400 lively 5th and 6th graders from southwest Minnesota about recycling. We jazzed things up with a Q&A game featuring the ever-popular Plinko — because ...

The recycled-content building products maker has cooperated with Plastic Beach to collect some 60 tons of plastic film. Since starting Plastic Beach in 2019, founder Matthew Clough has built what Trex ...

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded ...