How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

Plastic film can be recycled, but not in your curbside recycling bin — most municipalities in the United States don't accept it. Instead, you can recycle it by bringing it to a drop-off location.

The low recycling rates for plastics in the United States obscure the fact that the recycling industry has made significant environmental strides recovering certain types of plastics and sending them ...

Diversifying the materials of an interior space can greatly improve its depth and visual interest. At the same time, adding partitions or other delineations of internal space can help organize flow, ...

Lisa Simpson and Cody Vaught sit in front of the new drop-off location for Alaska Plastics Recovery on June 29, 2024. (Courtesy Patrick Simpson) Alaskans will have a new place to recycle more types of ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...