Hard-to-Recycle Materials

Fewer plastic bags are being used in the U.K., and a German beverage producer continues to take recycling into its...

The San Diego City Council has voted to ban plastic bags at large grocery stores, pharmacies and other markets, making...

After banning imports of plastic scrap earlier this year, the Indian government has decided to allow exceptions under specific circumstances....

Instead of separating fiber and PE, two British companies are producing a mixed PE-fiber recycled resin, and the growing potential...

A recycling program in Virginia expands its plastics scope, and a materials recovery facility in Ontario pushes back against bags...

In its first full year of operation, British Columbia's printed paper and packaging recycling program notched a 77 percent recovery...

Plastic foam isn’t going out of style, and one forecast predicts steady growth in the global recycled plastics market. Foam...

A Quebec company using essential oils to prepare polystyrene foam for recycling has raised millions of dollars to build a...

Oregon's plastics recycling business goes global, and the pioneering work of a recycled plastics lumber researcher is chronicled. New plastic-to-fuels...

Canada collected more plastic for recycling in 2014 than it did the year before, with big boosts in curbside-collected film...