Only 4.7% of plastic produced by U.S. households in 2021 was recycled, according to a Greenpeace USA report. But that's not for lack of consumer participation. Greenpeace said most plastics simply ...

(CNN) — “Life in plastic; it’s fantastic,” so the song goes, but in reality, plastics and the chemicals used to create them have been increasingly linked to numerous harms to human health and the ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

Easy Answer: The numbers on the bottom of plastic bottles let you know the type of plastic they’re made of. The easiest to recycle are numbers 1 and 2. Not all plastics are created equal or out of the ...

(CNN)-- "Plastics deliver bountiful benefits to you and your world," exclaims the SPI web site, the online home of the U.S. plastics industry trade association. If it seems a bit over the top, imagine ...

Where does my plastic go after I recycle it in Durango’s single-stream recycling bin? What are the odds that it’s really getting made into other plastic goods? Am I just fooling myself into thinking ...

Amid the growing call for reducing the use of plastics, the environmental group Oceana has issued the first ever compilation of the material’s gruesome impact on sea turtles and marine mammals in U.S.

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...