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On trails in Grand Canyon National Park, I mostly pick up empty water bottles. It seems a job that will never be obsolete. Shouldn’t we have learned by now that refilling water bottles is the way ...

California has hailed itself as a leader in single-use plastic reduction and legislation. But a scuttling of its pioneering ...

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While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern. On August 19, a coalition of environmental ...

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Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...

At CES 2026, WES-Tec Global showcased a construction technology aimed at tackling plastic pollution ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, ...

The Alpena County recycling center, Northeast Michigan Materials Management Authority (NMMMA), sold more tons of recycled ...

One category of recyclables may even lose its recycling symbol altogether.