When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling bin and calling it a day. Here's why: Not all plastics can be ...

In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin. Once collected, the mixed ...

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that ...

Find out which things should stay out of the recycling bin by learning how to identify an item's recyclability based on its identification number. No matter how hard we try to implement plastic ...

When it comes to recycling plastics, size matters. Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, said Susan Collins, president of ...

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said.

What follows are general rules and guidelines on which takeout containers can and can't be recycled and how best to recycle them. Plastic clamshell containers: Clear plastic takeout containers ...

That's partly because of contamination, when products that aren't recyclable are put in bins, but the rules have also changed. "For years, we've heard the mantra of 'recycle plastics number one ...