With the county losing about $100,000 a month related to costs of recycling at the landfill, the Lycoming County commissioners are investigating ways to alleviate the drain on county resources.

The world produces more than 400 million tonnes of plastic each year, but less than one-tenth of this is recycled 1. That is one reason why stalled talks for a United Nations treaty to end plastic ...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series about private and public-sector efforts to scale reusable packaging systems in the Portland, Oregon, region. PORTLAND, Ore. — Since its ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: As the world enters an era the United Nations describes as global water bankruptcy 1, Veolia is drawing on the work carried out by its newly created ...

The quality of recycled plastic tends to be higher when the waste is pre-sorted by households compared with plastics recovered from mixed waste at a recycling facility in the Netherlands, research in ...

A new universal symbol for reuse aims to encourage the switch from single-use to reusable packaging and the development of a more integrated reuse systems worldwide. The introduction of this symbol on ...

Suffolk residents who have spent years separating bottles, cans and cardboard into blue recycling bins are about to see that routine change. The city is preparing to move away from the TFC curbside ...

As producers prepare to comply with California’s extended producer responsibility law, SB 54, the state is becoming a testing ground for reusable packaging collection and refill programs. CalRecycle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recycling is one of those habits most people feel reasonably confident about, until they start looking closely at what actually ...

When you think about, it's honestly a bit wild that there are certain things we tend to care about because we live in America. But for people living in other countries, those things don't cross their ...