According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

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This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Teen Vogue. In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside ...

Right now, Miami-Dade County generates 5 million tons of trash each year and only 37 percent of that is ever recycled. And ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...

“We put 50 billion garments into landfill every year in the US,” says Kristy Caylor, founder and CEO of For Days. And unfortunately, even recycling efforts aren’t always a clean solution. For example, ...

What is Recycled Polyester? Ever wonder how your favorite fleece jacket or cozy blanket came to be? If you’ve purchased any ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Is recycling working? We all assume it is when we put our recycling bins out on the curb every week. But the truth is much of it, especially plastic, is ending up in our landfills ...

Most black plastic containers are non-recyclable. Takeout containers are becoming more eco-friendly, but there are still some that you can't recycle. Mastering recycling in 2025 means understanding ...

ST. LOUIS — Recycling hasn't had the best track record in the St. Louis area recently. In late 2021, St. Louis City officials told 5 On Your Side that they were no longer picking up trash and ...