According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

Are you recycling your cardboard boxes? If you're like me, you always have a ton of boxes from receiving weekly meal kits or ...

Nearly 50 billion disposable paper cups are thrown away each year in the United States alone. Most of these cups are not recyclable or not recycled. They typically end up in landfill or are burnt, ...

Recycling isn't just about good intentions. It's about a little prep work. That means actually rinsing out that soda can, taking the plastic handle off that old busted pan and stripping the junk off ...

The Woodlands is one of the most active recycling communities among its neighbors, with 93 percent of residents recycling from their homes in the last year. Waste Management picked up 9,253 tons of ...

The world was a very different place in the 1970s when Steinbeis Papier launched its factory to recycle used telephone books in Germany. Considered pioneering at the time, recycling has become a ...

While it's great that many types of paper can now be recycled, textile waste is still mostly just dumped or burned (with a few experimental exceptions). A new technique could change that by combining ...

CHICAGO, April 7 (Reuters) - Kimberly-Clark Corp is going "green" in toilet paper, napkins and paper towels, launching a line of consumer paper products that uses recycled material. The launch this ...