Many consumers are guilty of filling drawers or closets with old laptops, cellphones, fitness trackers and other electronic ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Recycling is being called into question as landfills keep growing. When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on ...

The fast-innovating textile recycling sector is looking for better ways to identify and sort feedstocks for both reuse and ...

Recycling is a nightmare. We all want to reduce waste— 93% of Americans support recycling—but in the real world, many/most people don't really know what's recyclable and what isn't. So we toss every ...

Californians recycle because “they’re attached to the environment they live in,” says Rachel Machi Wagoner, the director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, known as ...