Recycling can be confusing. Use these symbols to decode what and how best to recycle. Recycling is highly beneficial to the environment. It creates less waste and minimizes demand for raw materials ...

You’ve seen the little recycling symbols stamped on plastics, glass, paper, metals and other materials. But what do they mean? We’ve compiled a handy guide to help you decode the dizzying ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

The Plastic Bottle Institute surrounded these ... So is there a way to give the recycling symbol meaning again? When recycling started taking off in the early 1990s, there was no definitive ...

Amazon’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab is trying to design a kind of plastic that's cleaner to make—and easier to ...

However, the vast majority of plastics don’t fall under this ... Part of the trouble is that there is no legislation covering ...

How did we get here? For decades, we’ve been misled about plastic. Those blue recycling bins and chasing-arrow symbols gave us the illusion that the plastic we use is being recycled and repurposed.

So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics, I have been exploring potential solutions. In cities that use single-stream recycling ...