Gardeners can make some planters using only their old water bottles with this handy trick. Expert gardener Joseph Clark took ...

You might take the time to sort out your recycling, but that effort could be going to waste. Follow these simple steps to ensure your metals are processed correctly.

So we toss every empty bottle, can, and cardboard box into the bin and hope for the best. This is known as "wishcycling," and it's a bad idea. Mixing up the recyclables and the send-it-to-the ...

Editorial board members Melissa Davis and Josh Farley uncovered creative new ways to bring new life to things unredeemable in ...

Disposable vapes are among dangerous items being thrown away in household waste and causing fires and explosions, putting ...

When it comes to recycling plastics, you should know there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling bin and calling it a day. Here's why: Not all plastics can be recycled.

It means items like plastic yogurt and soup pots, margarine tubs, and trays for things like fruit and meat can be placed in a ...

The stream of plastic we collect for reuse is made of plastics of many colours and that can give a browish tinge to bottles that use it. However Wenlock Spring is hopeful a new process will give ...

For this, I can thank the bottle of wine I had at lunchtime ... ready to be taken out to the bins when no one was looking. I even started wrapping up the recycling in bubble-wrap because I ...

A report by RI Resource Recovery Corp. explains what gets recycled, what doesn't (and why), and what happens to the rest.

A refuse collector in east London was injured after an empty gas bottle exploded inside the waste truck, blowing a hole ...

Aluminum water bottles debuted at the United Center and will be on hand for runners at the upcoming Bank of America Chicago ...