At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Modern beer production is a US$117 billion business in the United States, with brewers producing over 170 million barrels of ...

Learn how to make fabric at home from recycled materials using traditional grandmother techniques. This sustainable approach to textile creation reduces waste while preserving heritage skills.

Look around. Chances are, you're surrounded by concrete. It's in our sidewalks, schools, and homes — it's literally the ...

Perhaps fittingly, state lawmakers are recycling proposals if not actual legislation from last year as they address how to encourage the recycling of more packaging and reduce the amount of waste that ...

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, ...

Depackagers rerouted significant amounts of organic waste from composters when they arrived in the state several years ago.

Companies are not letting American-made material go to waste. Companies across the country are not letting American-made material go to waste. The Ford auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, is donating ...

Michigan’s new recycling rules are coming. Michigan officials are changing waste regulations, to focus less on landfills and more on recycling And this will be a major ideological shift: Michigan ...

We throw away and burn increasing amounts of waste that could easily be recycled. Norway's waste policy is failing because of inaccurate measurement methods, unreliable data and a lack of transparency ...