Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

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If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

Kalamazoo, is the sponsor of legislation to extend the state’s bottle deposit law so that it will include containers of noncarbonated beverages, water and hard cider. Voters overwhelmingly passed the ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington, has developed resources for pharmacies to recycle stock bottles. In support of APR’s primary goals to increase the supply and enhance the ...