Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal ...

Regulations are nudging businesses away from plastic packaging and toward paper, but this ‘plastic is bad, paper is good’ narrative is too simplistic.

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

In Nigeria, informal collectors of plastic bottle waste are central to resolving the clash between its environmental costs ...

Bristol City Council has opened a consultation on potential changes to waste collections, proposing to reduce black bin ...

Instead of buying a bottle of body wash, use bar soap, which has less packaging and is typically less expensive per use than ...

Bristol city council announces a pioneering environmental plan to collect black bins every four weeks. The radical plan has ...

Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one is cutting down through their medical plastics recycling initiative.

Associate Editorial/Opinion Editor Owen Carmicino ’26 talks about different plastics, their various uses, and their effects on the world we live in.

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

Black bins in Bristol could be collected every three or four weeks, as Bristol City Council is currently seeking public ...