Less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled worldwide, data shows. For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing. Did you know the ♻ symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game. Then, read on about how we got here, ...

Plastic Bank, the nonprofit that builds networks in underdeveloped countries to collect and process ocean-bound plastic, turns 10 this year. Plastic Bank (which was featured in the Summer 2021 edition ...