When a plastic bottle ends up in a recycling plant, the label attached to it usually isn’t recycled. That’s why a new bottle from Evian was designed to eliminate the label entirely, with the brand ...

Iceland has today become the first UK supermarket to highlight which of its own-label products use plastic-free packaging. It will do this using the Plastic Free Trust Mark – the world’s first ...

Greenpeace USA surveyed 367 recycling facilities across the country and found that only two kinds of plastic bottles and jugs are really getting recycled. Meanwhile, many U.S. consumer companies and ...

A new "no-nonsense" label on packaging will tell shoppers which products are completely free of plastic. The world's first plastic-free "trust mark" was launched today to help customers make more ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

Plastic recycling labels are everywhere: The ubiquitous “chasing arrows” symbol adorns everything from plastic bags and water bottles to kids’ toys. Most commonly, these symbols appear with a number — ...

Soft drinks giant Ribena has redesigned the sleeves on its plastic bottles, in a move it claims will improve recycling rates and prevent downcycling. The redesign, which affects its 500ml formats, ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Jennie Romer, the EPA’s deputy assistant administrator for ...

South Korea will prohibit manufacturers and retailers from attaching labels to bottled drinking water from 1 January in a move expected to reduce plastic use by more than 2,200 tonnes a year.

Dear Heloise: Hey there. I wanted to write in with two hints from a boy in Illinois. My mother lives alone, and I’ve asked her to turn on the front porch light when she goes to bed, then turn it off ...

It was probably the only time a 93-year-old has stolen the show at the Glastonbury music festival. Sir David Attenborough had important things to say when he warmed up for Kylie Minogue last month.