Sicily’s closed-loop glass recycling system is demonstrating how rethinking packaging infrastructure—not consumer ...

When Ohioans drop in or drop off their recyclables, they might not realize that in addition to diverting trash from the landfill, they are also supporting jobs, consumers and Ohio’s economy. In fact, ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

PROVIDENCE – Looked at one way, Rhode Island isn’t doing a bad job with recycling. More than 70,000 tons of paper, plastics, glass and metals were sorted at the state’s central recycling center and ...

The improvement is an effort to shore up returns on beverage containers with 10-cent deposits, which took a big nosedive ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee has introduced legislation aimed at incentivizing recycling statewide. Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would ...

California lawmakers have approved an update to the state's bottle recycling law that will add an estimated 200 million containers per year into the recycling stream by including fruit and vegetable ...