Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

Life just got simpler for everyone on campus with respect to trash and recycling. Sorting reusable refuse is out at SUNY Cortland. Single stream is in. The policy was adopted by Cortland County on Jan ...

STOCKHOLM — On a chilly autumn morning in the Norra Djurgården district, a woman holding a small garbage bag hustled out of her apartment toward a trio of nondescript metal bins next to her building, ...

The issue of single-stream recycling methods was one of the key topics bandied about during the Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, held late last month in New Orleans. The trend toward more ...

You toss that yogurt container into the recycling bin. It feels good, right? You're doing your part for the environment. Except here's the uncomfortable truth: there's a decent chance that container ...

In the 1970s, after already helping build Marin’s largest garbage-collection firm, Joe Garbarino Jr. saw a need for change. The “throwaway society” our nation had become was on a fast pace of filling ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics ...