It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

People bring coffins, broken Lamps, and plastic lessons to the Bay Area's zero-waste movement.

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

The best way forward is to change the social and economic system surrounding the production of plastic and the management of ...

The issue of plastic waste is not going anywhere. In fact, globally, we continue to generate more of it. In the EU, plastic packaging waste alone makes up about 16 million tons a year — and less than ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

At least three dozen facilities will open their doors as part of the Recycling in Action campaign organized by the ...

An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease ...

There's a particular kind of guilt that arrives quietly. It's the pause before tossing a plastic clamshell container into the ...

Recycled polyester activewear and swimwear are now everywhere. Major global brands sell leggings, swimsuits and puffer ...