Myth: Plastic bottles can't be recycled; Fact: Water bottles can be recycled approximately 6 times – but only 3 in 10 make it into a recycling bin "There's a big misconception that plastic can't be ...

Californians drink a quarter of the nation’s bottled water, but they recycle only 16 percent of the bottles. The rest — 1 billion water bottles a year — are tossed into the state’s landfills. “We have ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If someone told me 10 years ago that people would willingly pay over $5 for a one-gallon container of water, I would have scoffed. Yet here we are buying ...

People have long been told that recycling is an effective way to prevent pollution and help the environment. But rumors that the plastics you put in the recycling bin wind up in a landfill instead ...

Naya Spring Water, based in Canada, announced that it is introducing a plastic bottle that uses 100 percent recycled plastic. The company claims that the bottle is the first one to use 100 percent ...

Mary Lou Nicholson reached out with a grabber tool and picked up yet another plastic water bottle littering the beach at Fort Phoenix State Reservation in Fairhaven. Nicholson organized her first ...