By doing so, we further help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help to mitigate (or reduce the effects of) climate change. However, one of the problems we face today in the United States is that ...

Unfortunately, a lot of the recycling material the U.S. was sending to China was filled with non-recyclable items that don't have a market and are more likely to be dumped in unauthorized locations.

Dow is working with cooperatives in Brazil to improve waste recycling infrastructure and incomes. Dow. On a mission to address the environmental, social and economic impacts of plastic pollution ...

But to achieve this, it is paramount that the new treaty does not become a doctrine for recycling at the expense of providing a legal foundation for reducing plastic consumption.

Beyond recycling and reusing the 42 million metric tons of plastic that the U.S. tosses out annually, they say, we should reduce the tide of plastic that is manufactured in the first place.

Oregon is working on modernizing its recycling system so residents can trust the items they're recycling are actually recyclable. (Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Editor’s note: The ...