The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Scottish students earn 20 pence per recycled can through campus vending machines in pilot testing deposit return technology ...

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, California supermarkets and grocery stores will be required to take back bottles and containers to recycle. However, a new report by Consumer Watchdog says CalRecycle needs to ...

Glass bottles are heavy and must travel to Atlanta to be recycled from Kentucky, but reusing them can reduce the effect on the environment. Bigstock Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic ...

When people think about what happens to their glass containers once they hit the recycling bin, many assume they go back into new glass containers. While manufacturing new food and beverage containers ...

Supporters and opponents testified in droves at a D.C. Council hearing on a plan to add a 10-cent fee to bottle and can sales that would be refunded when the containers are recycled.

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HARRISBURG, pa. (WHTM) — Before putting things in a recycling bin, you should check with your municipality about whether or not you can put glass jars and bottles in your curbside bin. Harrisburg ...