Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

Despite some modest progress over the past two decades, Canada's waste diversion efforts remain wanting: according to the ...

Recycling is being called into question as landfills keep growing. When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Many people don’t sort their ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - People who live in East Baton Rouge Parish will soon see some changes to their garbage, trash, and recycling collection come September 1. The city-parish entered a new ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.