When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...
So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...
In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...
You toss that greasy pizza box into the recycling bin. You feel good about it. You're helping the planet, right? Well, here's ...
I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been known to rescue recyclables from the trash — at my house, for sure, but ...
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) is expanding its Recycling is Real advocacy campaign in a new video series spotlighting the recycling work taking place at Plastic Ingenuity in Madison, WI ...