Besides reducing litter and eye pollution, recycled plastic bags reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. A number of states, including California Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Yor… ...

Working with ABC News and nine ABC stations we assembled bundles of recyclable plastic bags, each containing a tracking device to see if those bags are being recycled at all.

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that targets one of our most problematic polymers. The findings are detailed in a ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit against the maker of Hefty trash bags accusing the company of misrepresenting its bags as recyclable.

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.

Unlike the city’s landfill or compost, where waste stays local, or the recycling program, where traditional plastics are shredded into feedstock for new plastic products, the orange bags are ...

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

A trash disposal company that serves many areas of Perry County reduced the number of its green recycling bags because people were not using them properly.

Kris Mayes contends Reynolds Consumer Products labeled their recycling bags in a way that was deceptive to induce sales.