State lawmakers are looking to put Mr. Trash Wheel on a diet by considering a bill that would add bottle deposits to ...

But, how do you know when it’s time to recycle them? Here are the telltale signs that you need to throw out old plastic food containers — right now! Whether it’s your leftover pasta sauce or ...

Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

One of the biggest recycling misconceptions is assuming the recycling facility can easily separate items placed in the bin, says Jay Simmons, packaging product development manager from North Pacific ...

Ridwell accepts hard-to-recycle items such as plastic film, batteries and light ... Clamshell-style food containers are no longer be accepted for recycling through Whatcom County’s waste hauler ...

One of the key challenges in recycling plastics — especially polyolefins, commonly used in packaging and containers — is the ...

Place separate bins for paper, plastic, glass, and metal in your home. Clean and repurpose jars for storage, vases, or DIY ...

Birds, turtles and fish eat or get entangled in plastic trash. It is only fair, Sherard argued, for bottling companies to bear some of the cost of recycling the containers they produce.

The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of colourful packaging, but most of it is made of virgin materials. So what happens to the carefully collected packaging after it's put in the recycling?