High Recycling Rate of PET Bottles Questioned in New Study PET bottles used as packaging for soft drinks and mineral waters are often touted as the greenest type of plastic, with one of the highest recycling rates in the industry. But…

Recycled Plastic Bottles Leach More Chemicals Into Drinks, Review Finds More chemicals being released by reused plastic could indicate need for ‘super clean’ recycling process A widely used kind of recycled plastic bottle passes more…

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…

Everything You Need to Know About Paper Recycling In 2011, 66.8 percent of paper consumed in the United States was recycled. Every ton of paper recycled saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, and if you measure by weight, more…

Turning Wood Into Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. A research team, led by YSE professor Yuan Yao and Liangbing Hu from the University of…

Poland to Introduce Deposit System for Recycling Bottles and Cans Next Year Poland will introduce a nationwide deposit system next year that will allow people to return used glass and plastic bottles and aluminium cans to shops without…

Smirnoff Recycling Program Targets Chicago Glass Bottles A new recycling program spearheaded by Smirnoff will connect over 300 Chicago bars, restaurants, and businesses to recycle used and discarded glass bottles. Smirnoff partnered…

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…