Less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled worldwide, data shows. For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Reduce, reuse, recycle. We all know the saying, but are you recycling the right way? For those working at the Material Recovery Facility in North Charleston, people not ...

“Reduce, reuse, recycle” is just the minimum for Amy Garside, who is taking the phrase to a whole new level with a zero waste lifestyle. After going 31 days producing minimal waste, the SUNY Cortland ...

Yale is implementing a new series of recycling signs across campus to help combat the ever-growing issue of waste contamination. This effort aims to improve waste collection by making it easier for ...

Every 24 hours, 150 species are lost and by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. With the threat of global warming and climate change looming large, Earth Day on April 22 ...

Still swimming in cardboard boxes, block foam, bubble wrap and colored lights — not to mention that bizarrely off-the-mark present from you-know-who? Recycling and donating used stuff has grown both ...

Today marks America Recycles Day, dedicated to promoting recycling and waste reduction across the country. Yet, as we celebrate, it’s worth asking: How effective is recycling, really? Despite decades ...

Aerosols are one of the UK’s most binned items, together with yoghurt pots, cleaning product bottles with triggers, toilet roll tubes, aftershave and perfume bottles – all of which can be recycled.

In Breckenridge, our waste diversion goals are guided by the three R’s: refuse, reuse, and recycle. The town has new regulations that will significantly help to reduce waste. Currently, there is an ...

Recycling is easy, what about composting? In Newmarket where I’m writing from, we pay low prices for a household recycling bin to be collected weekly, ultimately giving an incentive to utilize this ...