According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination ...

Manufacturers often pair the iconic logo with a resin identification code, with numbers from 1 to 7 that indicate the type of plastic ... paper, aluminum and glass items that are easier to recycle.

Recycling, once considered the domain of people with “long hair, granny glasses ... The Plastic Bottle Institute surrounded these numbers with the chasing arrows logo, giving the public the ...

In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin. Once collected, the mixed ...

The material can also be more prone to breaking than plastic, aluminum and paper. And making and recycling glass are both energy-intensive processes, experts say. “Until we can couple that glass ...