Keeping food waste out of landfills provides climate and other environmental benefits, and Vermont requires residents to ...

One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical recycling, uses heat and chemical reactions to break down pl ...

Week after week, like clockwork, your trash seems to vanish into thin air: Set the bin on the curb before bed and, by morning ...

From microplastics clogging up our oceans to landfills leaching dangerous chemicals, plastic waste is a serious and growing ...

TerraCycle and Loop founder and CEO Tom Szaky says the economics of the recycling business are broken in key ways, but consumer and corporate interest in building a circular economy continues to grow.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.—On the edge of the Florida Everglades, trash giant WM, the former Waste Management, just opened a $90 million facility that can process 60 tons of recyclable material an hour from ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.