Council Oak Elementary School had an Earth Day celebration with its students, parents, and teachers. The outdoor event taught about recycling and how to care for the planet.

Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going? Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products ...

Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going? Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products ...

Here's what to know about how successful the efforts to recycle and cut plastic production have been and the challenges that come with them.

Because of this, Kaufman says, “The aim should be to significantly reduce plastic production, use, and waste, not recycle more.” What about reusing and redesigning plastics?

It’s notoriously difficult to recycle plastics; only 6% of what’s made gets recycled, according to the OECD. That’s largely because different kinds of plastic cannot be recycled together.