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 ...

The improvement is an effort to shore up returns on beverage containers with 10-cent deposits, which took a big nosedive ...

Bottle bills will face the same hurdles as in years’ past, but supporters in places like Maryland and Washington hope new perspectives on domestic manufacturing and EPR can help make their case.

STRATFORD — A new recycling center is promising to make it much easier and faster to exchange old bottles for cash. The facility, which opened this week, relies on state-of-the-art automatic bulk ...

PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

A new bill cosponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, could give Washingtonians refunds for glass and plastic, to boost recycling. OLYMPIA — In another effort to boost recycling in Washington, a ...

BRIDGEPORT — Fred Miers wants to make bottle redemption fun. Whether or not he succeeds, for the next few weeks he will at least make it more profitable for people. "Starting Nov. 1 we're going to pay ...