Recycling plastic is challenging. For years the oil industry has been promoting the idea that your plastics are being recycled in order to reduce concerns about consuming plastic.

Recycling criteria for plastic bags varies from country to country, state to state, and even county to county. Here are ways plastic bags a currently being recycled, with ample opportunity for new solutions to be discovered!

Los Angeles Times reporter, Ryan Faughnder, goes plastic-free for a week and hits dilemmas left and right.