Instead of just banning plastic bottles, Carlsbad should back recycling of all beverage containers -- glass, aluminum and plastic. That would truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor ...

Plastics recycling in the U.S. is a mess. “Recyclable” plastic is overwhelmingly burned, landfilled, or ends up polluting the environment. Through it all, one plastic has managed to maintain a ...

The plastic from old beverage bottles is melted down and used as a binder to hold asphalt together. Roughly 150,000 bottles are used in 1 mile of roadway.

The new integrated reactor contains two compartments, one for the greenhouse gasses and one for the plastic waste, reliant on a new and promising silicon alternative, perovskite, for its solar cells.

For every lane mile of pavement, the TechniSoil system recycles about 150,000 of what’s known as PET bottles – the initials stand for polyethylene terephthalate – a type 1 plastic.

Making plastic releases earth-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and India is home to factories that make over 243,000 metric tons (268,000 U.S. tons) of disposable plastic each year.