Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put out ...

Mecklenburg County residents can now recycle plastic bags and wraps at full service centers.

Mecklenburg County now accepts plastic bags and wraps at recycling centers, responding to residents' requests for more ...

Learn how UNR’s Environmental Health & Safety supports plastic film recycling with new campus drop‑off locations and ...

Hundreds of volunteers worked to create care packages for people experiencing homelessness Monday during a Martin Luther King ...

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Every now and then, I check in with our recycling hauler to uncover the rogue items sneaking into recycling carts or drop-off spots, where they absolutely do not belong. The top five offenders ...

A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate different state recycling requirements and labeling by creating a single, national ...

A community effort in Mahaska County is on a mission to help save its landfill.

"This blows my mind." Shopper shares baffling photo of luxury brand's excessive safety precautions: 'Who buys that?' first ...

South Africa’s plastic bag levy was first introduced in 2004 as an anti-pollution mechanism and to support environmental ...

Deep-tech startup PolyCycl has secured Series A funding from Rainmatter to expand its patented chemical recycling technology ...