The aim of the new study was to explore the consequences of ingesting all of those chemicals on living organisms. The researchers put zebrafish larvae in the contaminated water for five days. That ...

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your recycling bin.

When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling bin and calling it a day. Here's why: Not all plastics can be ...

Recycling is a great way to reduce your negative environmental impact, but tossing these items in your bin might end up doing ...

Is recycling really worth the effort? Easy answer: Yes. There’s an entire industry devoted to finding another use for all the glass, aluminum, paper, and plastic you drop into the blue bin. The Waste ...

The amount of plastic produced annually in the U.S. has grown from 35 million tons in 1970 to 460 million tons today. Shifting the responsibility for disposal of packaging from municipalities to ...

When you toss your plastic trash into a recycle bin, you think it gets whisked away and transformed back into more useful plastic items. But this little recycling saga mostly isn’t true and ...

Plastic film can be recycled, but not in your curbside recycling bin — most municipalities in the United States don't accept it. Instead, you can recycle it by bringing it to a drop-off location.

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