For WUWM's "Beats Me" series, a listener asked which plastics are recyclable in Wisconsin. Turns out, it varies depending on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...

The best way forward is to change the social and economic system surrounding the production of plastic and the management of ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Areas with less wealth and formal education often have fewer nearby facilities, making recycling more difficult and expensive ...

A. J. Jacobs, writer for The New York Times, shared his attempt to avoid plastic in an article published Jan. 15, 2023: “On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products—or ...

A start-up recycling company has a message for its potential, environmentally conscious customers: Don't send your problem garbage to the landfill; put it on your front porch. The company is Ridwell, ...

If those old plastic pots are piling up in your garden shed, bundle them into your car. There's a place in most towns and ...