Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

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 ...

America is recyclinghowever, not enough, and not always properly. While we can hope that the future of recycling improves, the reality is that the amount of plastic that actually gets recycled right ...

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

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

No, not all items with a recycling label are recyclable in North Alabama's recycling program. The recycling symbol indicates ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...

Dear Tee Cee: Why don’t Boulder County’s recycling guidelines mention the numbers inside plastic recycling symbols? I have a plastic food container with No. 5 inside the symbol, but I can’t find any ...

Despite plastic being one of the most difficult materials to recycle, companies continue to put recycling symbols on items that will never end up anywhere but the landfill. If we’re going to truly ...