This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

On a muggy summer day in an industrial stretch of Brooklyn, New York, Josefa Marín stood in a sea of empty aluminum cans, methodically sorting the tall green Heinekens from blue-and-silver Red Bulls ...

Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1970 when he entered a design contest sponsored by a box manufacturer for a logo to ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

The global aluminum recycling market is projected to reach $91.3 billion by 2032, driven by industrial efforts to cut energy ...

The Diet Coke cans filling up your recycling bin could have a much shorter journey to their eventual destination thanks to a planned recycling center in Rosemount. Spectro Alloys recently broke ground ...

Want to make some extra money from your trash? Yes, you can do that! Recycling centers and scrap yards all over the country (and beyond) will pay you for discarded aluminum cans. Here’s everything you ...