At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

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

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

Organic waste (including food waste) in our landfills is the third-largest source of methane gas that ends up in our ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office (AFFO) and the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) launched the 2026 Waste to ...

The Times unearthed memos that signaled a major shift in the court’s operations, in a decision that critics say was rushed and flawed. By Claire Brown Collection services offer convenience, but most ...

California-based company enhances e-waste recycling capabilities with improved material recovery and secure data ...

San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies. By Scott Dance We talk to the author of a new book ...