Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When Ohioans drop in or drop off their recyclables, they ...

First, remove any prescription labels and clean the bottle. Expert shares genius tip to deal with empty pill bottles: 'Do not ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

Nobody likes to see plastic bottles overflowing in bins and rattling around the streets. These single-use receptacles are a prime target in tackling the plastic crisis, but what if we’ve been ...

Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

A recent report issued by Holland, Ohio-based Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI) says there may be “an opportunity to create a market for noncolored problematic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles ...

PROVIDENCE – Looked at one way, Rhode Island isn’t doing a bad job with recycling. More than 70,000 tons of paper, plastics, glass and metals were sorted at the state’s central recycling center and ...

Rhode Island legislators introduced three bills to address plastic bottle waste, including a "bottle bill" and an "extended producer responsibility" program. The bottle bill would implement a 10-cent ...

In promoting curbside beverage container recycling as a better option than bottle recycling deposit-return programs (or bottle bills), Brad Lovaas of the Washington Refuse and Recycling Association ...