It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

The waste and recycling industry is adopting new systems, technologies and educational programs to manage these materials ...

In 2022, humans generated roughly 62 million tons of electronic waste—or e-waste. That's enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. And by 2030, that figure is expected to rise to 82 million ...

Advanced recycling offers something conventional recycling never could — a way to truly undo plastic.

A dumpster full of recycled plastic is emptied at Tank’s Speedway Recycling and Landfill in Tucson, Arizona, in March. Diannie Chavez The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Recycling was once considered the ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Several tens of tons of post-consumer, polyester-rich, European textile wastes, sorted and prepared in France, have been ...