When that happens, the entire bag is treated like trash. Holiday decorations and wrapping materials also create confusion.

Grant Jones, Sherbourne Recycling, explores the challenges facing the UK’s plastics recycling market and the hidden costs associated with waste imports.

The Tour de Trash makes four stops: RRR recycling center, Hawaiian Earth Recycling, the Waimanalo Gulch landfill and H-POWER — where trash is burned to generate electricity. It's a rare chance for the ...

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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 ...

Don’t just toss these six items in your recycling bin. Many common kitchen items like clamshells, foil and greasy pizza boxes often can’t go in curbside recycling. Food residue on containers and mixed ...

Larry Welnowski Jr. moved his plastics recycling business, Nickel City Polymers, from Buffalo, NY to Mauldin, SC. Nickel City Polymers focuses on post-industrial plastic recycling, distributing prime ...