UB researchers want to provide regulators and others a quick and reliable way to assess sustainability claims.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 23, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

A panel at the 2025 Plastics Recycling Conference agreed that resins used in durable goods, such as polypropylene (PP) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), hold tremendous potential in advancing the ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

ALBANY — Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

JAKARTA — With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors serving up chicken porridge, and everyone from office workers to ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

The Washington-based Ocean Conservancy has released a new report, "United States of Plastics," that analyzes state-level efforts to combat plastic pollution on a five-star scale. According to the ...