Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in February by Starbucks, the waste hauler WM (formerly known as Waste Management), and three recycling ...

More than three billion PET bottles and aluminium cans were returned through Sweden's deposit return system (DRS) in 2025, 130 million more than the ...

It’s a problem for consumers who want to make better choices. The fact something is recyclable does not ensure it gets recycled. Someone has to pick it out of general waste, sort it and transport it ...

The Flexible Packaging Association and the American Forest & Paper Association are among the plaintiffs seeking a preliminary ...

The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a frontline medication for the ...

Researchers engineered a two-strain microbial system that converts PET-derived terephthalic acid into levodopa, overcoming ...

A group of farmers, dairy product makers, packaging manufacturers, restaurants and grocers allege a “speech ban” that ...

The US PET recycling system is at a critical crossroads, as highlighted in The Recycling Partnership's PET Packaging: Solving for an Out-of-Sync System webinar. Leaders from across the recycling value ...

The United States’ recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) market struggled throughout 2025 and into this year, with bottle bale prices falling as low as 6-8 cents per pound in some areas in ...

Plastic pollution remains a persistent global challenge because most plastics are difficult to recycle without losing material quality. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), widely used in bottles, ...