Glass is now the only common packaging material that costs recycling facilities more to process than they make from selling ...

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

I used to be that person. The one rinsing out peanut butter jars at midnight, carefully sorting yogurt containers, ...

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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 ...

FLORENCE — Every week, Florence residents drag their recycling to the curb. They fill the green bins with this morning's cereal boxes and yesterday's soda cans. They expect it to be reused. Maybe it ...

A drink bottle, a worn-out pair of tights, and a chunk of old mattress foam don’t have much in common, except that all three ...