Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

Mount Desert Public Works Director Brian Henkel will speak about upcoming changes to the town’s recycling and waste ...

The meeting is the first of several to come, as the city transitions from a manual, dual-stream recycling method, to a single-stream recycling collection. Improvements will include new DPW recycling ...

You toss that yogurt container into the recycling bin. It feels good, right? You're doing your part for the environment.

Regional Waste Systems’ (RWS) Recycling Committee has executed a single-stream recycling pilot project in the town of Lyman, Maine, an RWS owner-community with a population of fewer than 4,000. RWS ...

Life just got simpler for everyone on campus with respect to trash and recycling. Sorting reusable refuse is out at SUNY Cortland. Single stream is in. The policy was adopted by Cortland County on Jan ...

When cities all over the county switched to single-stream recycling — one big blue bin for everything — it seemed to make recycling so easy, so simple. Now, the trend is reversing: The city of ...

It’s easy to look at the data on recycling rates—21.4% overall and only 9% of all plastic!?—and feel tempted to go full-on trash nihilist. But throwing up our hands doesn’t solve anything. Proper and ...

CORALVILLE — After a series of delays, a Coralville program where consumers no longer have to group their recyclables by type of material is set to begin June 3. The city will join neighbors Iowa City ...

Van Dyk Baler Corp. completed the installation of its first Bollegraaf single stream system in Canada. The system has been installed at International Paper Industries’ Winnipeg, Alberta, facility. IPI ...

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...