Fewer than a dozen states have a program that collects a small deposit on packaged drinks, refunding it when people recycle ...

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, ...

A bottle bill is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business, proponents of House bill 6207 write.

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Second- and third-grade students at the Academy worked together to create the blankets, which were made out of fleece, their ...

Shop these 13 environmentally-friendly products that help minimize waste and preserve our planet's resources in honor of ...