Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people remain unsure what plastics can be recycled - with millions of bottles unnecessarily being discarded every day in the ...

You know that little triangle with the number inside that you see on practically every plastic item you've ever touched? The one that made you feel good about tossing your yogurt container into the ...

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull ...