“Recycling is already really difficult for consumers,” said Aisha Stenning, who leads a plastics initiative for the Ellen ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. It happened again the other night: Washing up after dinner, ...

Right now, Miami-Dade County generates 5 million tons of trash each year and only 37 percent of that is ever recycled. And ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

California pays people up to 10 cents for recycling certain bottles and cans. The state credits the program with reducing waste, but it's also been a target of criminal schemes. "It's an honor system ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Is recycling working? We all assume it is when we put our recycling bins out on the curb every week. But the truth is much of it, especially plastic, is ending up in our landfills ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Teen Vogue. 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 ...