Given how few single-use plastic bags are recycled – just 13% – reducing the use of plastic bags could have a big environmental impact. Now the nation is split on what to do: Strengthen bans ...

A plastic bag, a dirty pizza box, plastic utensils, paper napkins, and a soda can—a single takeout meal can feel like a game of recycling trivia. Which items can be recycled? What kinds of ...

Note these two types of plastic that typically cannot be recycled in household bins: Plastic bags, wraps and films (recyclable but only through participating programs like retail and grocery ...

Plastic bags are also very difficult to recycle and around 93 billion plastic bags don’t get recycled each year. In 2018, less than 9% of all used plastic bags were recycled. These bags cause a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags ...

Now, store associates collect these bags and send them to special facilities that are equipped to recycle them into other plastic products, extending their life. Anthropologie has already recycled ...

The new plastic bags are made of 75% recycled plastic. Giant Eagle has been on a journey with our customers since 2019 to understand how we can best reduce single-use plastics across the ...

The mats are made entirely out of recycled plastic bags and include a recycled pillow and a strap to make the mats easier to move from place to place. They are intended to keep them off of the ...

Materials researchers have developed a new technique to successfully determine the recycled contents of plastic products. To encourage more recycling, some countries are taxing single-use plastic ...