Your ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Yogurt Container Is Rarely Recycled

Companies are set to start out labeling plastic packaging generally used for yogurt, cottage cheese and butter as “widely recyclable,” sparking opposition from some environmental teams who say the change dangers deceptive customers.

A labeling program based by plastics makers akin to Exxon Mobil Corp. and shopper merchandise firms together with Procter & Gamble Co. and Nestle SA stated in July month that packaging created from polypropylene was now eligible to be marketed as “widely recyclable.”