Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ...

PENDLETON — Mixed curbside recycling for residents is coming to Pendleton real soon, said Mike McHenry, the president of Pendleton Sanitary Service Inc. The Oregon Legislature in 201 passed the ...

Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to ...

Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP), an English organization helping individuals and businesses reduce waste, is seeking partners for trials into commercial scale mixed plastics recycling. After ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

This feature is based on a presentation delivered by Sharyn Dickerson at the 2004 Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, which was held in Atlanta in late June. Athens-Clarke County is the third ...