Columbia recently announced that it would no longer pick up recycling for a while due to staffing shortages. While this seems like a major setback for the environment, recycling is a rapidly failing ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Re “The Complicated Truth About Recycling,” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 3): We all need to recycle paper, cardboard, glass and metal, and compost yard waste and food scraps.

The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate ...

WM bales and sells the plastic film it recovers at its MRF in Germantown, Wisconsin, as it does for other materials such as OCC and rigid plastics. Capturing this film, which is still not an item ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...