Recycling in Bedford has become significantly simpler with the official adoption of single-stream recycling by the Bedford ...

The rule would have further monitored PFAS and other chemicals from plastics used in chemical recycling. The plastic industry ...

Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and economic security. They're ubiquitous in our smart technologies, ...

The Italian energy company Eni unveiled a new plastic recycling plant — and announced plans to build a second one.

Roanoke’s new single-stream recycling program got going this month as more of a flood. Over just the first six days of picking up the new electric blue bins, trucks collected 291 tons of ...

Last summer, in anticipation of the county adopting a universal recycling ordinance, our homeowners association voted to start single-stream recycling for a trial run of six months. We followed ...

We wanted to see how well the metals, plastic and glass that we work so hard to clean end up in the recycling stream. We put AirTags in a few of them to try to find out.

How does single-stream recycling work? In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin.

Washington would benefit from a truth-in-labeling law, so you'd know if something is really recyclable, and a stable demand for used materials.