It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Most people assume that if it looks like plastic or cardboard, it's fair game, but a single grease-soaked pizza box or a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Advanced recycling offers something conventional recycling never could — a way to truly undo plastic.

People depositing plastic bottles and other items into recycling bins - Lightfieldstudios/Getty Images A "new chemical reaction" might not automatically sound like the subject of an attention-grabbing ...

It's commonly believed that recycling plastic waste on a large scale will have a positive impact on the environment, but the ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...

I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But ...

Recycling bags in Mecklenburg County is a little different after county leaders took action in response to a Channel 9 ...