Despite some modest progress over the past two decades, Canada's waste diversion efforts remain wanting: according to the ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Recycling is being called into question as landfills keep growing. When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

People who live in unincorporated areas of Jefferson Parish, like Metairie and Lafitte, will see changes to their trash and recycling pickup in the new year. The Jefferson Parish Council recently ...