Most black plastic containers are non-recyclable. Takeout containers are becoming more eco-friendly, but there are still some that you can't recycle. Mastering recycling in 2025 means understanding ...

If you're one of those people who loves to cook, no doubt your saucepans take a bit of a battering in the kitchen. Eventually, there will come a time when they need to be got rid of. However, not all ...

The holidays create a lot of waste, with all the wrapped presents, holiday-centric clothing and strands of lights that don't work anymore. The day after Christmas, you might find yourself wondering ...

Like a lot of locals, Erin Harris really wants to recycle as much as she can. “But we were doing most everything wrong,” Harris said, expressing a common lament when it comes to knowing what you can ...

Piles of beautifully wrapped boxes and bags under the tree quickly become a big pile of trash on Christmas morning. But it doesn't have to all be tossed in the trash, many of those holiday items can ...

Two big moves from state officials this week target the future of recycling. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning the use of plastic bags, and Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil for ...

Once a week you likely schlep a big green bin with a yellow top to the end of your driveway. The contents inside – plastics, aluminum, paper – are picked up by a large recycle truck and taken… where?

All trash put into any bin in Montgomery County finds its way to the Montgomery County Solid Waste District location in Moraine, and waste collectors there estimate nearly two-thirds of garbage they ...

In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in ...

Researchers have developed a new PCB that performs on par with traditional materials and can be recycled repeatedly with negligible material loss. Researchers used a solvent that transforms a type of ...

Tossing the wrong items into recycling can gum up the entire process. Here are seven takeout containers that should skip the blue bin entirely.