Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, and 7 are more difficult.

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues that reduce effectiveness.

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

This project tackles plastic pollution by shredding HDPE plastic waste and melting it into new objects. Using a homemade oven ...

A new capital support competition has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme to encourage closed-loop recycling of post-use HDPE plastic bottles in food contact applications, ...

Plastics recycler Envision Plastics is increasing production capacity of the company's EcoPrime brand of food-grade high density polyethylene by 50 percent through a multimillion-dollar expansion.

One of the UK’s most “wish-cycled” items, many brands have switched over so that they are now made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). These brands include Colgate, Sensodyne, Aquafresh and Corsodyl.

In this video, I demonstrate how to make plastic mallets using recycled HDPE. This tutorial addresses frequent questions ...