Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may not be allowed.

Ever stood over a recycling bin wondering if that plastic packaging, block of Styrofoam or old can of paint in your hand can be recycled? Such confusion often leads to wishcycling — that is, putting t ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

A binman has shared the three items he's fed up of seeing in recycling bins up and down the country - as he urges people to educate themselves on the 'dos and don't' of recycling ...

But whether refilling actually makes a difference depends on how these systems are used and what they replace. Scores of ...

When the Meals on Wheels program in Syracuse stopped using Styrofoam trays, it donated hundreds of unused trays to Utica Creative Reuse. Second graders at Bradley Elementary School in New Hartford ...

Tennessee's proposed Waste to Jobs Act aims to shift recycling costs from taxpayers to corporations, Oak Ridge's EQAB chair ...

"If a battery comes into the waste, it's an immediate risk of fire because if a battery is not handled correctly it can spark and that can cause thermal runway and then create a fire risk," said Grime ...

An initiative that resells unwanted items saved from recycling centres across Cornwall believes it has saved about 500 tonnes of waste. Cornwall Council said its Kernow Reuse Shops had sold about ...

Creating waste goes hand in hand with modern society. But how we dispose of it has changed significantly in recent decades. Disposal sites have largely moved from small, unregulated landfills where ...

There are many items that shouldn't be put in the food compost bin or recycling, including a popular food which should always go in with general household waste – but many people get it wrong ...

Thirty-six thousand square feet can hardly contain the expanding operations of Cincinnati Recycle and Reuse Hub, a waste diversion non-profit located in Price Hill. Nicknamed “the Hub”, this ...