An innovative recycling start-up hopes to make the most of "wish-cycling" - the practice where people try to recycle things like prescription bottles, bread tags, and even ballpoint pens, with no ...

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We have all done it: a greasy pizza box, a disposable coffee cup, the odd plastic bag. Sometimes, we want things to be recyclable, so we put them in the recycling bin. Waste managers often call this ...

Recycling rules can be confusing — and vary from city to city — but properly assessing items before tossing them in blue recycle bins helps minimize what ends up in landfills. The process starts the ...

Researcher for the Clothing Sustainability Research Group and Lecturer Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Trent University Have you ever paused to ponder the fate of those bags of old clothes you ...

Keep these items out of your recycling bin. If your recycling bins are full every week, you know you’re doing your part to help the environment. Your community may have a list of what it does and ...

According to experts, our recycling system, as it currently stands, is broken. Many of China's recycling mills and farms are being forced to stop collecting recyclable scrap materials due to the ...

The environmental impact of aspirational recycling, where people try to recycle items that can't be recycled, can do more harm than good. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...