People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and bottles, metal and glass recycling has been a great success. Sadly, the incentives have been weaker ...

Plastic film can be recycled, but not in your curbside recycling bin — most municipalities in the United States don't accept it. Instead, you can recycle it by bringing it to a drop-off location.

Most of the 360-billion-plus metric tons of plastic manufactured each year isn’t recycled. Some of that’s due to laziness—in the U.S., where plastic bottles can be easily recycled almost everywhere, ...

Plastic is ubiquitous. Around 1m plastic water bottles are sold every minute and 5trn plastic bags are used around the world every year, according to the un’s Environment Programme. Half of all ...

Most people viewing the carcass of an abandoned motherboard would see a useless collection of plastic shards and mangled wires. Hewlett-Packard's Chris Altobell sees silver and gold. Altobell is the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never ...

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...