The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

America is recyclinghowever, not enough, and not always properly. While we can hope that the future of recycling improves, the reality is that the amount of plastic that actually gets recycled right ...

Only 4.7% of plastic produced by U.S. households in 2021 was recycled, according to a Greenpeace USA report. But that's not for lack of consumer participation. Greenpeace said most plastics simply ...

If you grabbed a cup of coffee from your local chain this morning, what did you do with the cup? Trash it? Recycle it? Maybe you threw the plastic lid in the “landfill” can and tossed the paper cup in ...

In a 2019 survey conducted by the Consumer Brands Association on what they labeled the “broken recycling system in America,” 68 percent of respondents said that they assumed any product with symbols ...

Bailey Barr, executive director of Northeast Michigan Materials Management Authority (NMMMA), says that the “biggest thing for us,” regarding recycling, “is transparency.” “What’s going on? Where’s it ...

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...