At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

Learn how to make fabric at home from recycled materials using traditional grandmother techniques. This sustainable approach ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Depackagers rerouted significant amounts of organic waste from composters when they arrived in the state several years ago.

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...

Companies are not letting American-made material go to waste. Companies across the country are not letting American-made material go to waste. The Ford auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, is donating ...

Just throw it all in the trash bin. By 2029, that can become the motto for most of Hampton Roads, as single-stream recycling ...

How do bottle and can recycling centers make money if they’re paying you for the materials you drop off? Recycling centers are the rare operation where you, the consumer, end up making money. But ...