LyondellBasell, Shakti Plastic Partner to Build Mechanical Recycling Plant in India The companies say they estimate the plant will get started in 2024 and is intended to process postconsumer rigid packaging. Chemicals and refining…

Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle. A municipal waste worker turns away another shipment of recycled materials littered with greasy pizza boxes and broken glass, sentencing this waste to slow death in a landfill without…

Plastic-Munching Bacteria Offer Hope for Recycling Our lakes, rivers and oceans are increasingly clogged with plastic, plus trillions of microscopic fragments thereof, from all the useful and disturbingly durable products made possible by…

Only 5% of Plastic Waste Generated by Us Last Year Was Recycled, Report Says Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere Only 5% of the mountains of…

Why is Recycling So Important? The Dirty Truth Behind Our Trash We need to change the way we think about waste. Recycling is much more than just reducing the amount of waste sent to the landfill, with a long list of benefits that aren’t…

More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true…

US PET Recycling Rate Posts Modest Increase in 2021 NAPCOR says 2021 marks the largest amount of postconsumer PET bottles and thermoformed containers ever collected. The U.S. recycling rate for postconsumer polyethylene terephthalate…

Food Waste Recycling in Scotland Up 40 Per Cent Food waste recycling in Scotland increased by 40 per cent between 2013 and 2017, saving thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, according to new reports published by Zero Waste Scotland.…

Small Companies, Walmart Teaming In War To Reduce Food Waste The F&B industry helps feed the world every day, and technology is making the process more efficient, potentially boosting profits while reducing waste. But there’s a long…

India Generates 3.6 Lakh Million Tonnes Plastic Waste, 50% of It is Recycled Around 34.7 lakh tonnes per annum (TPA) of plastic wastes was generated by India during 2019-20, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and…