Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jumble of empty plastic bottles await reuse. - Westend61/Getty Images You might get eco-guilt when you toss a plastic bottle ...

Plastic bags. Plastic forks. Plastic straws. All are non-biodegradable, single-use plastics that you can’t traditionally recycle—meaning that they inevitably end up in our seemingly never-ending waste ...

You might get eco-guilt when you toss a plastic bottle into the recycling bin. Will the material from the container really be used to make something new? The answer to that question is unclear.