Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

Last week, LaMar Detert walked me through Discover Plastics, his 48-year-old plastic recycling company in Rogers, Minn. I was there because I wanted to double-check that it exists. A few days earlier ...

Plastic recycling volumes in the U.S. increased by 280.3 million pounds in 2021 compared with the previous year, with recyclers acquiring more than 5 billion pounds of postconsumer plastic for ...

Plastics recyclers and PET resin maker Indorama are part of a coalition urging Rhode Island to adopt a combination bottle bill and extended producer responsibility law, calling it the best shot at ...

PET bottle makers seeking a “right of first refusal” on end-of-life bottles would promote monopolistic control of materials, recycling organization says. Three trade groups say a right of first ...