Accelerating Circularity says demand, cost and risk allocation are keeping most textile-to-textile recycling routes from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more than two-thirds of that glass never ...

The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate ...

A recycling bin can reduce guilt and increase waste. The same behavioral trap can distort company metrics, accountability, ...

On a sweltering morning in early July, Thomas Andrade, the co-owner of Everett Auto Parts in Massachusetts, supervises as a team of workers carefully straps two Chevy Volt hybrid batteries to a pallet ...

Color may be standing between an old cotton garment and its next life. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a two-step process that stripped as much as 99.3 percent of the color ...

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Re “The Complicated Truth About Recycling,” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 3): We all need to recycle paper, cardboard, glass and metal, and compost yard waste and food scraps.

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

Columbia recently announced that it would no longer pick up recycling for a while due to staffing shortages. While this seems like a major setback for the environment, recycling is a rapidly failing ...