When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been known to rescue recyclables from the trash — at my house, for sure, but ...

It’s time for some trash talk. That’s because some Lake County communities are beginning a new program impacting garbage collections. The Hefty ReNew program kicking off in October will be giving ...

At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull contaminants off the line. Trash goes in barrels at the workers’ sides, and ...

PLOVER, Wis. (WSAW) - If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, how about recycling properly? You can start by making sure you aren’t recycling items in plastic bags. The Portage County ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...