Utility officials say glass recycling in the Seattle area faces “unprecedented challenges” as the region’s main manufacturer of glass bottles shuts its doors. The Ardagh Glass Packaging plant in ...

Industry experts call for domestic sourcing to save struggling US PET recycling infrastructure from imported competition ...

California company says its PET bottle cap can make PET bottle recycling more efficient. Origin sees its new cap having the potential to gain market share in an approximately $65 billion global bottle ...

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.) ...

PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

“Mono-material” makes “100% recycled PET” possible from cap to bottle and improves recyclability because it is all one material, without the need for recyclers to separate caps from bottles WEST ...

The chance at an unlikely but substantial monetary reward gets people more jazzed about recycling than a small but certain reward, according to a new study. The findings suggest that implementing ...

PROVIDENCE – If there’s a model for policymakers as they consider the creation of a bottle bill aimed at boosting Rhode Island’s middling recycling rate, it may be Oregon. The West Coast state was the ...