A binman has named the common item Brits should never recycle as it can lead to their waste being "rejected", and left behind ...

Waste360 asked three waste and recycling experts for their thoughts on what we might expect in the next few years. Here’s ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult ...

Every holiday season, our houses fill with upgraded gadgets and the promise that we’ll deal with the old stuff later. Meanwhile, the drawer of mystery cords multiplies, and some items just get tossed ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, ...

It is evident that Washington loses hundreds of billions of dollars annually on spending that most Americans would certainly consider wasteful. Lawmakers seeking to rein in spending and budget ...