Low levels of plastic recycling are bad for human health and the environment. For lead, high levels of dangerous recycling ...

Columbia's study of its recycling program is nearing its end, and the consultant working with the city was on hand Tuesday to provide an update. Kate Vasquez, solid waste planning and advisory ...

The environmental impact of aspirational recycling, where people try to recycle items that can't be recycled, can do more harm than good. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and ...

After recycling's failure to appreciably reduce the amount of plastic the U.S. throws away, some states are taking a new approach, transferring the onus of recycling from consumers to product ...