It’s made of easy-to-clean plastic that can handle a few dings, and it is lightweight enough to carry to a drop-off site. Before testing the OXO bin, I considered myself a freezer-only composter ...

Ridwell is going door to door in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, gathering hard-to-recycle items for a fee and picking up where ...

A new interactive map has laid bare Britain's bin postcode lottery where some families ... Each week binmen collect food waste from green caddies; paper, plastic and metals and glass in separate ...

Houston seeks to be a national model for plastic recycling. But a program that started in 2022 hasn’t yet found its footing.

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Eleven years ago, Stephen West was ...

Learn more. How to make the black plastic on your car look new again. All plastics eventually fade when exposed to the environment, but if your car’s trim is starting to look gray and sad ...

In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to ...

Scientists have now utilized that fact to produce "living plastic" that biodegrades – but only under specific conditions. Spores are a dormant form taken by some types of bacteria, typically ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...

plastics, batteries, textiles, waste electrics and coffee pods. The Conservative government pledged not to introduce legislation that would require households to have at least seven bins ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...