Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have rolled over an experiment that could reshape how Hawaii deals with its ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Hawaii has a plastic problem. The island state faces economic and logistical challenges in recycling plastic waste, including marine debris that lingers in its ocean waters. Researchers in Hawaii are ...

The Plastic Reduction Alliance played a game of “Is it recyclable?” Wednesday night. “For the longest time, I thought any plastics I take into my home, I just take to the plastics recycling facility ...

People have long been told that recycling is an effective way to prevent pollution and help the environment. But rumors that the plastics you put in the recycling bin wind up in a landfill instead ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

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Walk into any of the stores operated by the four major supermarket chains serving the Boise area, and near an entrance you’ll find a bin inviting you to drop off plastic store bags and other soft ...

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson's drug, ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...