"I wanted to provide households with a quick, safe, and simple means of compacting plastic containers of varying sizes," said ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent in weight to half a million cars — is generated every year in China, according to Yufei Qin, head of the plastic recycling ...

So much of Coloradans’ discarded waste — averaging out to 5.6 pounds per person each day — winds up sitting in landfills thanks to a low recycling rate, but coming changes will outlaw most plastic ...