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Compost material is gathered at a county facility in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. MUST CREDIT: Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post Slowly but surely, Americans are getting into composting. Curbside ...

The disclosure provides a clearer view of how future regulation is likely to affect packaging design, recycled content ...

Plastic takeout containers, snack wrappers, and food packaging are everywhere. And most of them end up in landfills or incinerators. But one Chinese company is proving that this trash doesn't have to ...

The global advanced recycling market is projected to grow significantly, driven by regulatory mandates and corporate ...

Brazil produces around 7 million tons of plastic products a year, 44% of which are disposable and single-use plastics, common in food packaging; a significant amount of it ends up in one of Brazil’s 3 ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food and beverage packaging can serve as markers of the Anthropocene, a period in ...

Emerald Packaging, the largest supplier of retail flexible packaging for the produce industry, today announced that it has become ...

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...

Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...