First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

Plastic bags and films can’t be recycled in a traditional curbside recycling bin, but there are still many opportunities for local residents to recycle these single-use plastics. A report ...

Founders of Resynergi, a plastics recycling startup, say they've developed a proprietary method for breaking the strong ...

An ABC News report finds some plastic bags deposited in retail recycling programs end up in landfills or incinerated.

So what should you do with plastic bags instead? For one, most grocery stores and large national retailers like Walmart and Target, which are the main sources of these bags accept them for recycling.

Recycle plastic bags? You may be surprised to hear they often end up in landfills or shipped overseas to places like Indonesia and Malaysia.

ABC News tracked dozens of plastic bags placed in retailers' recycling bins as part of an investigation into the effectiveness of America's recycling streams.

Plastic bags are problematic for recyclers for all kinds of reasons; there's a recycling glut since China stopped accepting them ...