In fact, soft plastic packaging does not belong in your blue recycling bin because it jams up sorting equipment at recycling facilities. It often ends up in a landfill because it cannot be recycled.

Goulburn Mulwaree Council in Australia has initiated a free trial recycling service for soft plastics and vapes at the ...

SAN DIEGO — Approximately 310 million pounds of plastic packaging is produced in the world every year. In fact, soft plastic packaging does not belong in your blue recycling bin because it jams ...

Goulburn Mulwaree Council has launched a free trial recycling service for soft plastics and vapes at the Goulburn Waste ...

Researchers measured micro- and nanoplastics in such food and drink products as beer, canned fish, rice, mineral water, tea bags, table salts, take-out foods and soft drinks. Here's what they found.

As plastic waste keeps on plaguing the planet, an eco-brick is one way to avoid contributing to more landfill - and the ...

Soft plastics, which is a broad term for a variety of packaging materials, are not accepted in the campus standard mixed recycling. Some common soft plastic materials are candy wrappers, chip bags, ...

Soft plastics also tend to have a nasty habit of leaking out of the system. “We should universally prioritise solutions for the highest-leakage plastic categories,” Pew, a US think-tank ...

Since soft-plastic packaging is crucial for shelf life, “we can’t currently get rid of it altogether.” Collecting consumer soft plastic at stores stops the material going into landfills, the ...

Once it is collected, the materials will be taken north to Canada, where they will be turned into, in some cases, plastic packaging once again. “The end user for this material will be Merlin ...