The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would allow people to return used bottles ... plastic trash. It is only fair, Sherard argued, for bottling companies to bear some of the cost of ...

If you consume bottled water on a regular basis, you’ll probably have an abundance of empty bottles ready to recycle ... who knew that your humble plastic bottle can be so useful!

Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false ...

When Whatcom County residents learned recently that trash and recycling hauler Sanitary Service Co. wasn’t accepting clamshell containers anymore, the folks at Ridwell, a waste reduction and recycling ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

The government has announced a new deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans in a bid to tackle plastic waste and households will be paid to bring empty bottles back to stores ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

If passed, Nadeau said the bill would make a significant impact in the District's recycling ecosystem Nadeau said plastic bottles alone account for 60% of the weight of all trash in the Anacostia ...

Do you cross the street to put your soda can in the recycling bin or avidly pluck plastics and paper from your neighbor’s trash cans? The current state of recycling in the United States may ...

and we can recycle plastic bottles up to seven times. We are now recycling more bottles and cans than ever before and in a better way. Because we are now recycling enough material of a high enough ...