It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, ...

Recycling efforts have surged in the last two decades and are expected to continue to grow as people and businesses “dig deeper into the waste stream” to recycle more and ...

Textile-to-textile recycling was a hot topic at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be difficult — and costly — to be an ...

There's a particular kind of guilt that arrives quietly. It's the pause before tossing a plastic clamshell container into the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) It’s hard work soaking ...

Louise Brown says she was "gutted" after recycling bins were removed from shared bins near her flat Just a couple of junctions on the M1 separate Milton Keynes and Luton – but their recycling rates ...

Being kind to the environment is great, and there are small changes we can all make to better ourselves in this regard. Some take it to the extreme, whether it's flight-free living, dumpster diving to ...

“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.