It's a weekend, friends from out of town are visiting here for the first time, and before they throw away their soda cans they ask: "Do you recycle?" In Yakima, where there is no publicly owned option ...

On a global basis, only 14 percent of plastic packaging is collected for recycling, according to The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation ...

ASPEN – Banana peel? Toss it in the trash. Or, maybe not. A hoped-for pilot program in Aspen could target the one substantial component of the community’s garbage that isn’t already the focus of local ...

Eleven bins shaped like giant coffee cups have popped up along one of Manchester’s busiest streets, Oxford Road. They’re part of a new campaign and social experiment from environment charity Hubbub ...

Residents in a Maryland Heights subdivision are dropping off their food scraps near the street for composting in the first Missouri program to collect food waste at the curb. In June, composting ...

Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

Ray Leard swung the plastic bucket back and forth through the brisk morning air to get a feel for its rotting contents. "Got a full one here," he called out. "Pumpkin for sure." He still had several ...