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

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, ...

Much plastic waste is soiled and composed of several different layers, making it too complex for the usual recycling method.

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Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would impose at 10-cent deposit on the purchase of each bottled or canned beverage. That deposit would then be refunded if the ...

“Cans and bottles are easily recognizable as returnable, but other containers are just as valuable,” says West, who says that based on their overall recovery rate data, unclaimed deposits on ...

Hey, guys! This video has another great idea for recycling a can. I used cardboard, paper napkins and acrylic paint to decorate. The tag can be made without the embossed letters, but simply drawn and ...

Mecklenburg County officials are urging residents to stop discarding lithium-ion batteries in the trash or recycling after ...

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Pathway to Payday is a free four-day employment workshop series designed for community members and local businesses to ...

Plastics have also eased the world’s reliance on older materials, and on the living beings from which many of them came.