With 30 million tons of plastic in our landfills, it’s worth spending a bit of time to brainstorm ways to get creative with plastic.

Window panes, mirrors, light bulbs and tableware are impractical to recycle. Bottles and jars are usually fine. Compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) are recyclable, but contain a small amount of ...

A team of international scientists has unveiled a breakthrough recycling process that could dramatically reduce the financial ...

The CalRecycle program incentivizes recycling at privately-owned centers with a 5- or 10-cent return on eligible beverage containers, but only material from California is eligible.

They wanted to put their strawberry containers, bags, yogurt cups and all manner of plastic trash in their recycling bin. "We had to re-educate individuals that a great deal of that material is ...

San Jose prohibited the company from declining to pick up contaminated recycling containers or educating residents on its own, the letter alleged. The rocky relationship between CWS and the city ...

Data from the OECD reveals that the American continent has a dirty secret when it comes to how it handles its trash. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip. ... Broken recycling system.

Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will ...