Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC ...

What started as a small annoyance with my recycling bin turned into a bigger problem once it kept happening. My neighbor had ...

Cincinnati — Greg Janson recycles plastics. That's what he does. But this doesn't mean he likes the conditions he sees every day in the industry. And the challenges facing the business call for a new ...

Stockton councillor Nigel Cooke says he is "confident" the new system will "settle down".

Once recyclers label something as a “problem material,” it can be difficult to shake that reputation. Attendees of a session at the 2010 Paper Recycling Conference, however, heard from presenters who ...

Panelists at this year’s Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference discussed challenges in residential packaging recovery and methods for improvement. From left to right: Johnny Gold of the Gold Group ...

Have you ever noticed recycling arrows on the sides of your bread or produce bags? They show that those bags can be recycled, but you likely can't include them with your curbside recycling.

The problem: Too many people who are recycling glass through the city’s purple bins are throwing non-glass items into the glass bins, causing workers to have to separate the items. Items that aren’t ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

On the first day of our amazing walk on The Camino between Porto, Portugal, and Santiago de Compostella, Spain, last May, my husband and I were overwhelmed by the beauty of the Atlantic Ocean and its ...