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

Three options are going before lawmakers to boost RI's recycling of bottles, and two include options to return bottles for a ...

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 ...

An extended producer responsibility program would make producers responsible for recycling packaging materials ... on all purchases of drinks in bottles, cans, plastics and other recyclable ...

"Our biggest concern is probably going to come in the form of retaliation against U.S. exports of our products," a recycling ...

They can also be recycled in food and drink cartons banks at recycling centres. Most of us don’t have a recycle bin in our bathroom so often our bathroom bottles get tossed in with the general rubbish ...

Damian Gordon has bought a house using savings earned from recycling bottles and cans. Each eligible bottle or can recycled at a Return and Earn depository results in a 10-cent refund.

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 ...

How are NCAA basketball Final Four local organizing committees and finalists taking meaningful steps to reduce environmental ...

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