Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

With the year 2000 now upon us, many recycling and diversion requirements are coming due. And it would appear many municipalities are falling short of their goals. There may be several reasons for ...

Contamination issues and depressed markets for recyclables have some communities reconsidering the mix of materials they collect for recycling. Other communities are examining the methods they use to ...

CNET's Martin LaMonica follows recycling waste on the next step of its life: a high-tech, single-stream recycling center where machines do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Single-stream recycling will soon be tested in Bellingham. But not everyone is on board. One of those people is Mark Peyron, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Western Washington ...

Single-stream recycling was a promising solution when cities and towns adopted the collection in the 1990s. On the surface, the new collection method appeared to make recycling for households more ...

For close to two decades, local governments and the waste-hauling industry have been making the wrong investments in recycling. One former CEO of a waste-hauling giant admits that the ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...