Bottles are easy to recycle, but things get a little more confusing once you add coffee cups and other items into the mix.

After a rocky few years, Dekalb County is making big changes to restore trust in its recycling program—and residents are finally seeing results.

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

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Recycling robots are using artificial intelligence to learn how to sort recyclables by recognizing patterns in colors, textures, shapes and logos.

While the “essential worker” spotlight may have faded and business is largely back to normal, certain effects still linger when it comes to labor investments and recycling streams.

When you toss a soda can, a banana peel or a pizza box in your residential recycling or compost bins, where does it actually go? It could end up in a foundry in Oregon, or a local farm, or, if placed ...

Best Buy's haul-away options also facilitate the efficient recycling of larger items in your home. Furthermore, for those unable to visit a Best Buy store, they provide a Mail-In Recycling Service ...

While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...