In a nutshell Recycled plastic pellets from India, Nigeria, and Taiwan leaked 84 different chemicals into water, including ...

A woman sorts her bottles at a recycling center in downtown Los Angeles in 2013. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) By Annie Sciacca and Rachel Spacek . July 4, 2017 6 AM PT .

Many people who recycle do so because they believe they are helping the environment, but others think recyclable materials ...

Coca-Cola is launching bottles made out of 100% recycled material in efforts to reduce their use of new plastic. Here's where you can find them.

Your recycled bottles could even end up in products shipped back to America, completing the circle. Some companies make building materials from recycled milk jugs. "We get bales of milk jugs.

Bottles made out of PET plastic, also known as #1 plastic or polyethylene terephthalate, are the most commonly used and widely recycled, with more than 70% of them processed annually. But even after ...

In countries where PET recycling rates are high—like Norway, where more than 90% of bottles are recycled—it isn’t challenging to use traditional recycling. In other areas, being able to ...

But in reality, only a fraction of recycled bottles will have a second act, appearing on a store shelf containing beer or soda. There is little market for the glass, experts say, ...