The concept of the 3R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle has been central to our pursuit of sustainability, with the plastic industry emphasizing recycling as a key solution to plastic waste. However, the ...

Imagine you’re filling up 100 bags of coffee. You’re using beans from a few different providers — 10 percent of the beans they sent you are decaffeinated and the rest are caffeinated. However, you ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Plastic production is a massive source of greenhouse-gas emissions. I remember using a princess toothbrush when I was little. The handle was purple, teal, and sparkly. Like most of the other pieces of ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut ...