New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

While you can’t typically recycle plastic bags in your curbside recycling bin, you can recycle them through specialty plastic recyclers. You may even be able to drop them off at a nearby retail ...

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 ...

The company made the announcement at an event held at Everyman cinema in Leeds, showing a film illustrating the project development “from concept to realisation”. The film showed the collected ...

Researchers detected flame retardants in household items made from recycled black plastic. The study later received a correction — but regardless of this paper, the chemicals' health effects ...

The plastics recycling rate in the U.S. is very low, but there are tricks to improving your own plastic accountability.

In truth, she points out, 91% of plastic is not recycled, and a lot of what we throw into our curbside recycling bins doesn’t ultimately get recycled for because they are contaminated with food ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A large trash collector in Virginia will use recycling bins that are partly made from recycled trash. The Central Virginia Waste Management Authority said this week that it ...

An additional 62 PET bottles were recycled for the carpet in the A3. The carpet and floor mats in the all-electric e-tron GT are made from Econyl, a recycled nylon fiber constructed from fishing nets.

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim.

Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks.

RICHMOND, Va. — A large trash collector in Virginia will use recycling bins that are partly made from recycled trash. The Central Virginia Waste Management Authority said this week that it ...