AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Chicagoland residents are not recycling as much as the rest of the country. While the national recycling rate is 30%, Chicagoland residents recycle roughly 20% of waste, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Reduce, reuse, recycle: A motto that the City's Parks and Recreation Department is attempting to embrace with its pilot recycling program. On Tuesday, the El Paso Parks ...

While recycling campaigns can help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are now saying that it’s masked the glaring problem of over-production and de-emphasized other waste reduction ...

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...

We’ve all heard it. And sometimes, the tips we need to be more sustainable are right in front of us, said Jeremy Walters, the sustainability expert at Republic Services of Southern Nevada. The ...

Waste management has evolved from a linear model of “take–make–dispose” to a more sustainable framework predicated on reduction, reuse and recycling within a circular economy. Contemporary strategies ...

Yale is implementing a new series of recycling signs across campus to help combat the ever-growing issue of waste contamination. This effort aims to improve waste collection by making it easier for ...

CHIEVRES AIR BASE, Belgium – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: you may have heard these words since childhood, or at least over the last few years as public awareness of environmental issues has increased. But ...

BOSTON (MassDEP) – The Baker-Polito Administration announced $3.1 million in grant funding to 268 municipalities and regional solid waste districts across the Commonwealth. The grants, made available ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the importance of recycling in Michigan and put a greater emphasis on increasing the quality of the state’s recyclable materials for end-market use. “Recycling has ...