The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

Disposable cups made from paper, plastic and aluminum are now accepted in the Licking County Recycling public drop off recycling sites. Licking County Recycling recently entered into a new contract ...

We all know that recycling is good for the planet. But sometimes, the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle isn't obvious. When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing ...

Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee shop, it will be recycled and turned into something new. However, a CBS News investigation ...

SACRAMENTO - A CBS News investigation found that Starbucks, which is one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups, is struggling to get its plastic cups recycled. CBS News and CBS 13 wanted to ...

TerraCycle takes the items that local recycling centers cannot recycle, from razors to food wrappers to Swiffer pads. Here's ...

MIAMI - America generates about 97 billion pounds of plastic waste every year – the most on the planet. In the U.S., one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups is Starbucks – 75% of its ...