The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Recycling, a commonplace practice for many who wish to create less waste, still remains a mystery to most who participate in the habit. Phoebe Judge, the University of Nevada, Reno’s new ...

Glass bottles are frequently used to package liquids like soda, juice, beer, and wine, and are accepted in most curbside recycling programs. So why is the glass recycling rate (34 percent) half that ...

Bottles pass through the hot end of the recycling line at Ohio-based Owens-Illinois — one of the companies that buys cullet from CAP Glass, transforming it into food and beverage containers. When you ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Recycling has been a staple of everyday life for decades. We've been told it's a solution to managing waste, especially regarding paper, aluminum, glass, and plastic. So, on ...

Chattanooga is testing out curbside composting and glass recycling for the first time. City Council approved roughly $250,000 ...

PALMER - For the first time in nearly two decades, glass recycling is coming to Mat-Su. The Valley Community for Recycling Solutions center near the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Central Landfill in ...

Whoa, not so fast! Don’t drop that wine bottle in the regular old recycling bin! Until 2020, New Orleans, and Louisiana for that matter, didn’t have widely available glass recycling. In fact, more ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alex Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Stout (THE CONVERSATION) Every week, millions of ...

a quarter of glass and less than 10% of plastics do. Alex Jordan/University of Wisconsin-Stout So, what makes plastic recycling so difficult? As an engineer whose work focuses on reprocessing plastics ...