According to experts, our recycling system, as it currently stands, is broken. Many of China's recycling mills and farms are being forced to stop collecting recyclable scrap materials due to the ...

Key players are blaming each other for ongoing curbside pick-up failures while residents are given conflicting, inaccurate ...

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

I used to be that person who obsessively rinsed out jars and separated every tiny piece of paper from plastic. You know the ...

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.

Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...

It’s no secret that when it comes to household-generated paper and plastics, the U.S. has a recovery problem. Recent reports, including those published by The Recycling Partnership (TRP), Washington, ...

Jefferson Park neighborhood resident Nina Carter, 75, struggles each week to bring her big blue recycling barrel out to the street. “The wheels bog down into the dirt,” she says. “It would be easier ...