Recycling can be confusing enough as it is. To help, here's what those little numbers in recycling symbols actually mean.

You might be tempted to reuse plastic water bottles for convenience's sake or to cut down on waste, but you should know about ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting ...

EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ditch the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol for plastics, a move the environmental agency says will help prevent more plastic material from ...

Plastics recycling is littered with misleading claims and waste. Here's what that recycling symbol really means, its history and why more than 75% of your plastic waste ends up in landfills ...

Headlines make it seem like all plastic recycling is a doomed endeavor — but is that the complete picture? Not exactly.

Plastic recycling is made easier by special codes put into the plastic item at the point of manufacture. The plastic recycling codes, types of plastic and the applications of recycled plastic are ...

In an analysis released earlier this year 7, Bardow and his team found that scaling up recycling, relying more on renewable feedstocks and implementing other strategies to make the plastic ...

Find out which things should stay out of the recycling bin by learning how to identify an item's recyclability based on its identification number. No matter how hard we try to implement plastic ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- Recycling plastic can be confusing. Lots of plastics are marked with the familiar triangle, known as the "chasing arrows", so you might think you can just dump the items ...