SAN FRANCISCO -- There is a recycling crisis across the country and it's hitting California particularly hard. Recyclers are scrambling to find places to send all your sorted waste since China ...

Athens, Ga. - While recycling is often touted as the solution to the large-scale production of plastic waste, upwards of half of the plastic waste intended for recycling is exported from higher income ...

When China stopped importing waste two years ago, it may have inadvertently done the world a favor. China accepted two-thirds of global plastic waste as recently as 2016. So Beijing’s decision to halt ...

China's National Sword campaign, banning imports of plastic waste, has had a significant effect on the global recycling industry since it took effect in January. Countries accustomed to dumping their ...

A Chinese government policy aimed at curbing imports of postconsumer plastic waste went into effect Jan. 1, leaving recyclers in the U.S. and elsewhere without a market for much of their plastic waste ...

China has lost its title as the world’s biggest source of sea plastic, according to a new study co-authored by researchers whose widely cited 2015 paper had bestowed the title on China in the first ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There is a recycling crisis across the country and it's hitting California particularly hard. Recyclers are scrambling to find places to send all your sorted waste since China ...