Scientists have found a way to strip valuable metals out of dead batteries using a solvent built from urine and common acetic acid, turning a waste stream into a surprisingly powerful recycling tool.

A couple times a week for almost five months this year, Amanda Waddle collected paper waste from Woodvale Elementary School, weighed it on her bathroom scale, and tossed what fit into her home ...

It's a weekend, friends from out of town are visiting here for the first time, and before they throw away their soda cans they ask: "Do you recycle?" In Yakima, where there is no publicly owned option ...

The greedy machinery thumps, clanks, whirs and growls. Conveyor belts whisk along plastic bottles. Massive disks lift slabs of cardboard. A magnet plucks out metal cans. Every day, 150 trucks pull up ...

On a global basis, only 14 percent of plastic packaging is collected for recycling, according to The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation ...

Mentos enlisted raccoons to do the dirty work of trash collecting for a new sustainability-driven campaign, according to a news release. The effort highlights Mentos’ recyclable packaging and ...

—Verification Testing at the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” to Start in 2019— In 2011, Kurita concluded a joint research contract with JAXA to study future models of water recycling systems. Kurita ...

Ace Green Recycling announced significant progress in its global expansion strategy with equipment deployments across ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Head Office: Nakano-ku, Tokyo; President: Michiya Kadota) announced today the delivery to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (below, JAXA) of ...