Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above 95%. But in recent years it's slumped badly. The state shut down ...

Reverse vending machine marketed in Asia by plastic recycler Max Craipeau is designed to accept, identify and shred PET plastic beverage containers. The Botol reverse vending machine has been designed ...

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.) ...