Since 1989 The Plastic Lumber Company has been committed to providing the finest products from recycled plastics. Challenged by the idea of building a company based upon environmentally sound ...

The plastics industry is backing new federal legislation that includes provisions favorable to chemical recycling and that would set a national standard of 30 percent recycled content in plastic ...

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.

found in plastic bags, bottles, toys, and even mulch. Polypropylene and polyethylene can be recycled, but the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas ...

Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, 84 Lumber Company is the nation’s largest privately held supplier of building materials, manufactured components and industry ...

So just what can and cannot be recycled? According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), paper, plastic, glass and metal items can be placed in the now-familiar blue recycling bins ...

Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you ...

But just how much of that actually gets recycled? That's the question one What and Why RI reader wanted to know. “When his truck happened to break down near my house one hot day, I offered the ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Prior to this new program, those wanting to dispose of those plastic grocery bags had to drop them off at supermarkets, which in turn would send them to specialty recycling centers. For those of ...

Is plastic recycling beyond fixing? California thinks so. On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued ExxonMobil, claiming the oil and petrochemical giant had engaged “in a decades-lon ...