Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

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Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

For more than two decades, Chico entrepreneur Andy Keller has had a simple answer to the familiar grocery-store question: ...

First Balfour Inc., the Lopez Group’s construction and engineering arm, has reached a new milestone in its partnership with ...

Opinion column on curbing plastic pollution is appreciated. Some sources suggest less than 10% of all plastic has been ...

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...

Australia must ramp up its war on plastic, or the country’s recycling industry could collapse and millions of tonnes of ...

2025 was not a good year for recycling markets. Prices went down for everything in your bin. The only real difference is how ...

Plastic waste and debris is a pressing concern for coastal communities like ours — harming marine ecosystems and leading to microplastics in our seafood. The bulk of single-use plastic products are ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...