A sweeping state recycling bill calls for scores of companies to stop using plastic wrap when packaging products, which ...

Did you know that Styrofoam™ and plastic wrap—including bubble wrap—don’t belong in your recycling bin? Common in packaging, cups, takeout boxes, and packing materials, these items are not accepted in ...

With a typical single-serve packet of instant coffee—the ready-to-brew kind that Starbucks and other brands sell for home and office use—the plastic wrapper ends up in the trash. In a prototype of a ...

Companies across myriad industries are pledging to make their products—and packaging—more sustainable. One such company is the food and drink giant Nestlé, which announced in January that it had ...

The former teen idol Zac Efron is riding a skateboard, and then he's dressed for some reason in a bee-keeper's uniform. He's talking about the "pretty freaking cool" second life of recycled plastics, ...

For a decade now, the metal, glass and plastic that New Yorkers put in blue recycling bins at their homes for pickup by the Sanitation Department has been taken by truck or barge to the privately-run ...

As part of new environmental efforts announced on Tuesday, Apple said it will cut down on the material used in iPhone 13's packaging by removing the outer plastic wrap that typically enshrines the ...

Every day, consumers rip open packaged goods and discard the single-use plastic wrapper. That makes plastic pollution the key environmental concern for consumer packaged goods firms—and the target of ...

After a long day, a fridge that’s stocked with leftovers can feel like a lifesaver. Reheating them in the microwave is easy—but what about leaving the plastic wrap on? With growing concerns about ...

Companies that use plastic packaging are facing price pressures and supply disruptions, which they warn will likely mean ...

Plastic Ingenuity is using PureCycle's PureFive resin to produce coffee lids, containing 25% to 100% recycled content.