People have long been told that recycling is an effective way to prevent pollution and help the environment. But rumors that the plastics you put in the recycling bin wind up in a landfill instead ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...

Each week a garbage truck pulls up and workers collect the contents of your blue bin. Your mixed recycling contains lots of ...

Recycling can be simply throwing away things you don’t need in the blue bin. But sometimes, it feels less simple. How do you know what’s recyclable? And do you have to clean recyclables beforehand?

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...