Yahoo Finance

Plastic Waste Bins and Recycling Trends to Propel U.S. Commercial Waste Bins Market to $258 Million by 2029

Dublin, Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "U.S. Commercial Waste Bins Market - Focused Insights 2024-2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The U.S. Commercial Waste ...
National Geographic

Plastic Pollution

These tiny plastic beads go down the drain, eventually making their way to rivers, lakes, and the ocean at a rate of eight ...
Smithsonian Magazine

That Plastic You Put in a Blue Bin Might Now Be in a Landfill

Only about five to six percent of plastic waste produced in the U.S. is recycled, per a new report from Greenpeace. Massimo Borchi / Atlantide Phototravel via Getty Images Most plastic used by ...

Georgia Tech's new trash lab turns plastic waste into something useful

Georgia Tech researchers are taking on a problem most of us contribute to every day — what to do with all the plastic we ...
The Conversation

Do you toss biodegradable plastic in the compost bin? Here’s why it might not break down

Over one-fifth of all plastic produced worldwide is tossed into uncontrolled dumpsites, burned in open pits or leaked into the environment. In Australia, 1.1 million tonnes of plastic is placed in the ...
Earth.com

The plastic bottle in your recycling bin could come back as a vanilla cookie

Plastic bottles could become food as engineered yeast turns their carbon into protein, vanilla flavoring, and vitamin-rich ...

A man collected every piece of plastic he threw away for a year, 4,490 pieces later, his experiment became a movement to reduce everyday plastic waste

A man who decided to keep every piece of plastic he threw away for an entire year ended up with a collection of 4,490 pieces, ...