COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. _ China's decision to stop accepting much of America's recycling materials will result in higher disposal fees, at least in the short term, but it also presents an opportunity to ...

After seeing these ideas, you will never throw away glass jars, containers or bottles again. We all have a lot of glass jars, ...

Plastic contamination is a terrible issue—the oceans are flooded with plastic waste, which causes it to enter our food chain.

Recycling clothes is hard, thanks to mixed materials used to make them and the poor quality of recycled cotton. That’s why fast fashion retailer H&M is now offering an annual $1 million prize for ...

HEIDELBERG, Germany (April 15, 2008) -- Recycling is a concept the German community has adopted with vigor, and U.S. Army Europe and Installation Management Command-Europe officials are trying to ...

Municipal solid waste tossed out by Americans totaled more than 2.7 million tons in 2008, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That equates to 1.6 percent of the entire amount of MSW that ...