You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

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It's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment than you might assume.

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Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a ...

Plastics remain at the forefront of the recycling discussion. It is also a recycling challenge because of the complex sorting process, material contamination, the different compositions of plastics, ...

“Crosslinking softens the interface between polymer types. Then the dynamic on-and-off of the links helps the two species ...

Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back.

The soft plastic recycling industry wants more waste to stay here, saying too much material is being sent overseas.

California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable -- the most ambitious ...