The answer to this question falls somewhere in the middle: No, you should not crush metal cans entirely to recycle them, but ...

What motivates you to do more to protect the environment? A survey by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), a nonprofit, public service organization dedicated to recycling used ...

Americans, asked to imagine they were an item in a recycling bin, had to describe what happens to them next. In the range of responses to a March poll, 15% of those polled took the pessimistic route ...

For decades, we've been told: recycle! "If we're not using recycled paper, we're cutting down more trees!" says Lynn Hoffman, co-president of Eureka Recycling. Recycling paper (or cardboard) does save ...

DOUGLAS - The math is simple. Less trash into landfills means lower costs to manage that waste. The equation works whether landfills regionalize or not, making recycling a major priority for groups ...

Baltimore County residents' have had their perceptions about where their glass ends up shattered. Over the weekend, news broke that the county—which does not include the City of Baltimore—has not been ...

According to experts, our recycling system, as it currently stands, is broken. Many of China's recycling mills and farms are being forced to stop collecting recyclable scrap materials due to the ...

Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Arizona, hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. The great majority of worn and damaged panels are still dumped ...

Recycling makes a difference for the environment — when it’s done correctly. Placing the wrong items in your curbside bin can disrupt the recycling process, impacting the correctly recycled materials ...

Despite not being a popular option with environmental organizations like Greenpeace, nuclear power has often been praised as a solution to several nations' energy problems. French energy giant EDF ...

NEW YORK — If you are a New Yorker and sort your recycling at home, as city law mandates, you probably wonder, as you rinse bottles and stack junk mail and scrub yogurt containers: Does all this ...

As Earth Day approaches along with the end of the semester, students likely have a lot more on their minds than planting trees. Those soon to graduate have diminishing employment opportunities to ...