It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

Plastic election signs like these can be recycled. Now that the votes are in, you may be wondering what to do with that yard sign you had for your preferred candidate or issue. They don't have to go ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...

The joint project brings terahertz imaging into real-world recycling environments. Kun Peng (far left), Yi Zhu (far right) and Vanden Recycling representatives (center) meet at Oxford University to ...

Technology is giving us more options for plastic waste, but new methods are still far from perfect. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in ...

In a warehouse on the east side of the sleepy bedroom community of Rohnert Park, plastic bags lay piled in SUV-sized heaps. A towering contraption of pipes, computers and stainless steel vessels stood ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed ...