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

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

For WUWM's "Beats Me" series, a listener asked which plastics are recyclable in Wisconsin. Turns out, it varies depending on ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

Wondering what to recycle and what not to recycle in your curbside bins? This recycling guide can help.