The disposal of plastics is a global problem. They are nearly indestructible in natural conditions but are discarded worldwide on a large scale. The world produces around 400 tons of plastics each ...

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When you’re brushing your teeth and you’ve squeezed out the last bit of toothpaste, you probably toss the empty tube in the trash. Few people realize that most toothpaste tubes are now recyclable—at ...

Recycling is such a simple concept. In theory. As long as it has the triangle arrow symbol on it, it should be A-OK to go in the blue bin — right? Not necessarily. In reality, recycling has become a ...

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...

Glass is now the only common packaging material that costs recycling facilities more to process than they make from selling ...

Recycling efforts have surged in the last two decades and are expected to continue to grow as people and businesses “dig deeper into the waste stream” to recycle more and different types of items.

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