To increase recyclingin municipalities, sometimes it takes more than just encouraging citizens to be environmentally friendly. Incentive-based recycling may have a strange ring to it -- especially to ...

Every little plastic bauble you interact with has some sort of recycling code on it somewhere. Now that we’re producing plastic 3D printed parts at home, it would be a good idea to agree on how to ...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 9, 4:15 p.m. ET) — The leading association for plastic recyclers has switched course and now is affirming its support for the existing resin identification code (RIC). The Association ...

Pittsburgh City Council Member Erika Strassburger introduced an overhaul of the city’s municipal waste and recycling code earlier this month. The legislation was introduced with the hopes of ...

The Philippines has been reported as one of the world’s leading plastic polluters due to our dependence on sachets and improper waste disposal. According to WWF-Philippines, the National Solid Waste ...

I am an avid recycler, since my city recycles glass, paper, cardboard and plastic. Only plastic containers with a recycle code of "1" through "5" or "7" are accepted. My pet peeve is that some of the ...

Every time an office building or an old home is demolished, all of the broken-down materials have to go somewhere. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 230 million to 530 million tons ...