If you’re used to recycling, you know that there are many rules for what goes in the recycling bin depending on where you live. They’re ever-changing, which can lead to confusion. (We can only imagine ...

Plastic contamination is a terrible issue—the oceans are flooded with plastic waste, which causes it to enter our food chain. Meaning that we eat fish that have microplastics in their organisms. So ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

Yes! It is true that you shouldn’t recycle plastic bottle caps that are less than three inches in diameter; in fact, you shouldn’t recycle anything that is less than three inches in diameter. Why is ...

One Reddit user shared their simple (and brilliant) idea for reusing glass bottles: seed storage. In the r/ZeroWaste ...

Plastics container blow molders have a serious problem, but it's not recycling. It's an image problem. The good news is that there's a solution. The bad news is that even though I've been ...

It is easy to imagine the type of waste that is generated at a University of New Mexico football tailgate, with aluminum cans ...

For those who believe our society should be doing more to recycle plastic bottles, a concerning issue is developing in the city of South Lake Tahoe. Rather than encouraging more recycling through ...

Davenport said the class is made up of seniors and juniors and it's one of two environmental science courses she teaches for ...

Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles. Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles, the Environmental Protection Agency says, with some becoming part ...