Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful raw material.

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Despite an improvement in plastic recycling in recent years, landfill is a growing issue. Soft plastics like cling wrap and plastic bags are a major contributor to the problem, with 94 percent going ...

When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Because of this, the scientists judge ...

The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling ...

The Hefty ReNew bags are pulled off the recycling line at Rumpke and dumped down an orange chute to be sent to Hefty for recycling. It's been a year since Rumpke began accepting additional flexible ...

Trex, a manufacturer of high-performance wood-alternative decking and railing headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, has announced that its linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) pellets have ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Wednesday is National Recycling Day, and in northwest suburban Itasca, one manufacturing plant is at the forefront of creating some of the most responsible plastic packaging for your ...

Plastic recycling facilities are located all over the world. But the plastic that is extracted contains hundreds of chemicals, many of which are dangerous to people and the environment. When ...