There's a new campaign under way to help standardize messaging on public recycling containers in an effort to boost the amount of material, including plastics, diverted from landfills. TerraCycle, ...

Have you ever walked up to a trash bin and a recycling bin and felt confused on what goes where? Even if you work with plastics in some shape or another on a day-to-day basis, the answer is probably ...

Milk, juice, broth and wine containers made of carton can now wear the recycling insignia in California Critics say the state’s tough laws on waste and plastic should have prohibited that Lodi — A ...

The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has announced the public beta launch of DIYSigns, a free online resource that anyone can use to help people know what to recycle. Whether at home, at ...

California chemical engineer Jan Dell knows from her own research when packages lie. She has seen too many containers stamped with “the chasing arrow” crest—a curvy three-arrow stamp meant to indicate ...

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Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

Televised public service announcements created by Recycle Across America (RAA) have been scheduled for increased airplay in August 2015, according to the not-for-profit organization that describes ...

A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this ...