Student-led reverse vending machines are rewarding people with bus tickets for recycling plastic bottles, promoting cleaner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whitebalance.oatt / E+ via Getty Images Plastic bottles are the whack-a-moles of the real world. You recycle one and dozens more ...

When Ohioans drop in or drop off their recyclables, they might not realize that in addition to diverting trash from the landfill, they are also supporting jobs, consumers and Ohio’s economy. In fact, ...

The Carolinas Plastics Recycling Council (CPRC) and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), Florence, Kentucky, have announced the release of the jointly produced “Your Bottles ...

Discover how to create a DIY mini helicopter using recycled materials like a Red Bull can and a small plastic bottle. This ...

Three months ago, five gifted students from St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School started sacrificing after-school time and Saturdays to come up with a winning project idea that would combat a problem in ...

Lego is forgoing one of its oil-free recycled plastic block prototypes after testing showed the material didn't cut down on carbon emissions. However, the toymaker isn't ditching the effort to make ...

Dow, Midland, Michigan, has been included on Fortune’s 2019 “Change the World” list, a ranking of 52 companies that have made an important social or environmental impact through their profit-making ...

Coca-Cola Co.'s announcement that it will start producing the soft drink Sprite in clear instead of green bottles has recycling managers smiling. But why celebrate such a seemingly minor change?

Lego has stopped a project to make bricks from recycled drinks bottles instead of oil-based plastic, saying it would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime, according to The ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.