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Across America, many residents are taking deliberate steps to protect the planet by choosing recyclable products and participating in local recycling programs. They spend extra money and time on these ...

It’s no secret that the beauty industry has an ugly waste problem — which is why beauty brands with recycling programs are combatting overconsumption and the negative effects of single-use plastics.

According to a recent survey conducted online in November among over 2,000 U.S. adults by Harris Poll on behalf of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), two-thirds (66%) of Americans say ...

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Your vanity is likely filled with bottles, jars and tubes of beauty products. And eventually, those containers get thrown away (or, hopefully, recycled). But what if you didn’t have to worry about any ...

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that ...