The proposed rules would have triggered EPA risk reviews and restrictions on the industry. On July 9, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew significant new use rules (SNURs) ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most “recyclable” objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. At an 85,000-square-foot solid waste plant in south Santa Rosa, a tractor loader scooped up the blue bin contents from hundreds of Sonoma and Marin County curbside ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg Curtzwiler/Iowa State University. Researchers from Iowa State’s Polymer and ...

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Muriel Williman, senior assistant solid waste manager for disposal with the City of Durham, wants Durhamites to be more careful about what they put in the recycling bin. Credit: Photo by Lena Nguyen — ...

A Delhi woman taught children and even soldiers how plastic is not just garbage, but a resource that can be reused and managed responsibly by recycling it to make furniture. At the heart of this ...

The planned closure of four plants that chemically recycle plastics seems to confirm the conclusion of a new report by the ...