Northeast Florida residents mistakenly put 1,500 tons of trash in their recycling bins every month. For perspective, that amounts to the weight of 33 …
Colorado will likely miss its recycling goals in 2021. What will it take to change the tide of waste?
Recycling has been seen as a personal responsibility, but more initiatives around the state are looking at making structural, systemic change.
How good are you at recycling? A guide to recycling in Livingston County
Recycle Livingston Site Manager Bonnie White sorts paper with a volunteer at Recycle Livingston, 170. The State of Michigan is efficient at disposing of …
Take the time to recycle those key items for reuse
Glass and aluminum are melted down into new bottles. Recycled newspaper can be converted into pencils. Tires can be grounded for patting used at …
Glass can be recycled infinitely. Here’s how it works in Colorado’s “closed loop.”
Empty recycling receptacles are pictured at Eco-Cycle in Boulder on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun).
Happy Roots adds to programming with Bic recycling program
The partnership focuses on recycling writing instruments and their packaging. According to TerraCycle, nonprofit participants earn points for recycling …
Fire knocked down at recycling facility in north Minneapolis
The fire at Northern Metal Recycling spontaneously combusted in the center of rubbish and metal piles and spread rapidly before employees could …
‘Always changing’: ‘Recycling,’ as well as what can be recycled, is in flux
“(Recycling) doesn’t always equate to recycled. “(And) even when you recycle plastic, it has an end life,” she added. “At some point it stops being …
Old friends find new way of breaking down plastic for recycling
Igor Luzinov of Clemson University is teaming up with an old friend for research that could lead to a new way of recycling polystyrene, a widely used …
Flathead Co. project brings some positive changes to recycling centers
With this in mind, The Waste Not Project held a press conference Wednesday in Columbia Falls to highlight changes at Flathead recycling firms.