The U.S. produced an estimated 600 million tons of construction and demolition debris in 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent estimates. Nearly 25% of that debris ended ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

There's a proper way to recycle home electronics equipment and it does not include putting them in your curbside recycle bin.

Conventional PCB manufacturing—which is wasteful, energy intensive, and harmful to the environment—increasingly calls for electronics recycling to reduce material waste and energy requirements through ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have developed a carbon-negative building material that could reshape what ...

Ever wish you could keep your garden going even when it gets chilly outside? A cold frame can help you do just that by giving ...

Just a few months after the City of St. Louis ended alley recycling because of rising costs and high contamination rates, ...

The city of Parkersburg’s Municipal Recycling Facility is no longer accepting materials from commercial haulers, a practice ...

The Northeast Michigan Materials Management Authority (NMMMA) approved reducing their business membership fees by about 72%, ...