The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is about to invest in your trash. Consultants will sort through garbage and recycling around the state to figure out what you're throwing away and what you're ...

I’ll admit it. When I was assigned a recycling story I kinda rolled my eyes. I mean everyone knows how to recycle, right? What was I going to learn that I didn’t already know? Boy, was I wrong. We ...

It may be a small community, but Rollinsford is making big strides to keep its recycling program viable amid a chaotic global market that’s left many communities across the country struggling with ...

Sorting your recyclable paper, plastic and glass from your regular trash is one of the first steps, but the journey toward an environmentally sustainable future doesn’t end there. The Waste Pro ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

AI and spectroscopy enhance plastic recycling sorting accuracy and efficiency for sustainable manufacturing practices.

In the summer of 2017, China announced that it would no longer serve as the world’s landfill. For decades, the country accepted vast amounts of recyclable materials from the U.S. and elsewhere to be ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

INDIANAPOLIS — When you roll your cans, bottles and carboard out to the curb to be recycled, where do they actually go? That’s the question the 13News VERIFY team receives more than any other. “How ...

I’ll admit it. When I was assigned a recycling story I kinda rolled my eyes. I mean everyone knows how to recycle, right? What was I going to learn that I didn’t already know? Boy, was I wrong. We ...