Rumpke Waste and Recycling has announced several new items will be able to be processed at its new state-of-the-art facility ...

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Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Unplanned pregnancies after having your 'tubes tied' may be "considerably more common than many expect," according to a new analysis based on nationally representative data in the United States. The ...

South Korean designer Jeonghwa Seo has used purpose-cast aluminium tubes to create a collection ... of light and shadow," he added. Both the plastic elements and metal components were made locally ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

The study, published Tuesday in NEJM Evidence, revealed that 3% to 5% of women in the United States who had their "tubes tied ... a small plastic rod is placed under the skin of the upper ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled this way. But the volume of polyester plastics is minuscule compared ...

Toymaker Lego said Wednesday it is on track to replace the fossil fuels used in making its signature bricks with more expensive renewable and recycled plastic, as sales and profits surged.

tiles and tubes. Sorted plastics can also be sold and shipped for recycling elsewhere. A compactor is used to form square plastic bales, which makes transportation more efficient and increases the ...