Glass Recycling Foundation Awards Grants to Advance Glass Recycling The Glass Recycling Foundation (GRF), a nonproft based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has awarded about $70,000 in grants to support equipment, education and pilot project…

Coca-Cola Aims to Use 50 Percent Recycled Glass by 2030 O-I Glass and Coca-Cola are expanding an existing relationship to recycle more than 700,000 glass bottles annually. The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United has announced its goal of…

Paper Recycling Facts, Figures, and Information Sources Paper recycling has long been a success story in terms of recovery, and it's a process that continues to improve over time. More than 40 million tons of paper and paperboard…

Is Glass Recycling in the U.S. Broken? If you're one of the millions of Americans who dutifully puts your glass bottles out in a bin on the sidewalk in front of your house in an effort to help curb waste and keep it out of the landfills,…

Chemical Recycling: ‘Green’ Plastics Solution Makes More Pollution: Report The plastics industry claims that ‘chemical recycling’ or ‘advanced recycling’ technologies, which use heat or solvents to convert waste plastic into chemical…

Only About 5% of Plastic Waste Gets Recycled in US, New Report Says Only 5% to 6% of the 46 million tons of plastic waste generated annually in the U.S. gets recycled, a big dip from the last estimate of nearly 9% just a few years ago,…

Plastic Recycling Remains a 'Myth': Greenpeace Study Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace U.S. report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular…

Coles, Woolworths-partnered Recycling Giant Denies Program Failed After 'Concerning' Revelations Hundreds of millions of plastic bags dropped off by customers at major supermarkets are being stockpiled in warehouses instead of being…

Why the Collapse of Soft Plastics Recycler Redcycle Could Be a Good Thing for the Environment The REDcycle program accounted for a small amount of Australia’s soft plastics and put the onus on the consumer. Advocates say manufacturers and…

Recycle Plastics for a Cleaner Environment and Circular Economy For effective recycling, segregation of plastic material according to their properties or resin material needs to be science-based I happened to visit a grocery store in a…