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

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There is a recycling crisis across the country and it's hitting California particularly hard. Recyclers are scrambling to find places to send all your sorted waste since China ...

Heavy industries such as aviation and chemical manufacturing contribute to about 20% of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and will continue to depend on fossil fuels. While scientists are ...

For most of the last decade, recycling felt like a stable habit. You sorted your bottles, flattened your cardboard, and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

For weeks, KPRC 2 has been reporting on the recycling pickup delay problem plaguing residents across the City of Houston. According to the city website, the recycling pickup schedule was set to be ...