Plastic recycling labels are everywhere: The ubiquitous “chasing arrows” symbol adorns everything from plastic bags and water bottles to kids’ toys. Most commonly, these symbols appear with a number — ...

Greenpeace USA surveyed 367 recycling facilities across the country and found that only two kinds of plastic bottles and jugs are really getting recycled. Meanwhile, many U.S. consumer companies and ...

Despite the familiar "chasing arrows" symbol stamped on labels and packaging, the reality is stark: Less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled globally, and in the U ...

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The bill, championed by Ameripen, would preempt state laws and call on the FTC to require certain parameters such as ...

You may have heard some of the staggering statistics around the amount of waste within the beauty industry. (For example, Euromonitor International reported that nearly 7.9 billion units of rigid ...

(Reuters) - Retail giant Walmart Inc has been handed a win by a federal judge in San Francisco who tossed claims that the company labels some of its house-brand plastic products "recyclable" when that ...

Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc. (NASDAQ:COKE) is facing a lawsuit from an environmental advocacy organization that claims that the "100% Recyclable" label on Dasani bottles has violated California's ...

The certification for Bemis wood toilet seats comes at a time of increasing demand for sustainable products and scrutiny of ...

The organization, whose parent nonprofit is based in Virginia, says it analyzes waste management systems nationwide to figure out whether companies’ products and packaging are recyclable and then ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. But the plastics industry is working to make the public feel ...