Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

A US nationwide bottle deposit program could increase recycling of PET plastic to 82 percent, with nearly two-thirds of all PET bottles being recycled into new bottles, at a net cost of just a penny a ...

Would you rather have 10 cents in your pocket or a 1-in-10,000 shot at $1,000? Many people would choose the latter, and that could be the key to getting people to recycle more, a new University of ...

The U.S. recycling rate for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles was 29 percent in 2022, down slightly from 30.3 percent in 2021, according to the 2022 PET Recycling Report from the National ...

The District is considering joining 10 states who have active container deposit laws known as bottle bills.

American Beverage, the Washington-based organization representing the nonalcoholic beverage industry in the U.S., recently marked the five-year anniversary of its Every Bottle Back program—an effort ...

Environmental groups rallied at Polar Beverages’ headquarters on Tuesday, calling out the company’s influence in lobbying ...

Cans and bottles disposed in household bins are recycled to the same standard as those processed through the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), the organisation representing waste management companies has ...