Explore 23 eco-friendly, practical, and cost-effective uses for plastic bottles, ranging from art pieces to garden additions.

With 30 million tons of plastic in our landfills, it’s worth spending a bit of time to brainstorm ways to get creative with plastic.

Plastic that isn't recycled is either put in landfills or incinerated, or it finds its way into the oceans.Incinerating plastics produces carbon dioxide, which is responsible for the total energy ...

You Can Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags Into Packing Material If your collection of single-use plastic bags is overflowing, here's a way to give them a second life. Allie Chanthorn Reinmann ...

If you consume bottled water on a regular basis, you’ll probably have an abundance of empty bottles ready to recycle. But before you throw them all out, there are some clever ways you can ...

Exxon already has a site in Texas that can recycle 80 million pounds of plastic each year — turning plastic bottles into jet airplanes. But because it’s Exxon and has deep pockets, Mr. Bonta ...

The interest of these firms is understandable because much of their packaging is unsuitable for existing recycling techniques. If they can buy plastic made from hard-to-recycle waste, they can ...

Prevent a mess of plastic bags under the sink by using these expert organizing hacks. Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can ...

For more recycling information, here's how to properly recycle plastic and the right way to recycle paper and cardboard. Metal recycling FAQs.

Recycling plastic isn't working. The figure most often cited is that only nine per cent of the world's plastic has ever been recycled. That statistic is taken from a 2017 study looking at how much ...