Only about a third of the glass used in the U.S. gets recycled. That’s much lower than Europe, where some countries have recycling rates above 90%. So what gives? And what can we do about it?

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Glass belongs in the glass container—that’s obvious from the name. But can the lid stay on the empty jam jar, or should it be removed? Many people likely ponder this question when standing in front of ...

Ripple Glass provides huge collection sites for glass, such as this one just off South Grand. St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer announced plans to end alley recycling on May 15, just one day before an EF3 ...

On a recent weekday morning, employees at the new Glass Half Full recycling facility in Chalmette were dumping thousands of empty booze bottles and spaghetti sauce jars into machinery that pulverizes ...

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 ...