If you’re used to recycling, you know that there are many rules for what goes in the recycling bin depending on where you live. They’re ever-changing, which can lead to confusion. (We can only imagine ...

It’s a small matter, but a detail dedicated recyclers want to get right. Should you remove the cap of a plastic bottle before recycling it? How about the lid of a metal container? How about the lid of ...

California company says its PET bottle cap can make PET bottle recycling more efficient. Origin sees its new cap having the potential to gain market share in an approximately $65 billion global bottle ...

Yes! It is true that you shouldn’t recycle plastic bottle caps that are less than three inches in diameter; in fact, you shouldn’t recycle anything that is less than three inches in diameter. Why is ...

PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

“Mono-material” makes “100% recycled PET” possible from cap to bottle and improves recyclability because it is all one material, without the need for recyclers to separate caps from bottles WEST ...

Sometimes innovations in the smallest areas can have a big impact. Plastic recycler Greenpath Enterprises hopes the technology it developed to create a closed-loop system for recycling bottle caps can ...

How will you give back this season? Create a lasting impact close to home — help local journalists uncover the stories that matter. “Little plastics” have been in the news a lot lately, things like ...