You probably know someone — maybe it’s you — who hates to throw away yogurt cups, plastic bags, old phone chargers and all ...

More than 100 wineries and other businesses in Napa and Sonoma counties are out to prove a circular supply chain is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC ...

For years, sorting bottles from cardboard, scrubbing out jars, and dragging the blue bin to the curb felt like the right ...

Heavy industries such as aviation and chemical manufacturing contribute to about 20% of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and will continue to depend on fossil fuels. While scientists are ...

Panelists at this year’s Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference discussed challenges in residential packaging recovery and methods for improvement. From left to right: Johnny Gold of the Gold Group ...

The problem: Too many people who are recycling glass through the city’s purple bins are throwing non-glass items into the glass bins, causing workers to have to separate the items. Items that aren’t ...

Once recyclers label something as a “problem material,” it can be difficult to shake that reputation. Attendees of a session at the 2010 Paper Recycling Conference, however, heard from presenters who ...

Have you ever stood in front of a recycling bin, holding a yogurt cup, wondering if you're doing the right thing? Most of us have. We've been told for decades that tossing items into those blue bins ...

Have you ever noticed recycling arrows on the sides of your bread or produce bags? They show that those bags can be recycled, but you likely can't include them with your curbside recycling.

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...