Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

City and county officials are urging residents to utilize recycling opportunities provided by Vigo County Solid Waste ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Single-stream recycling makes participating ... products closer to a goal of a circular economy without waste. However, improving recycling also requires better recycling habits.

So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics, I have been exploring potential solutions. In cities that use single-stream recycling ...