Metzger cited the Merriam-Webster definition of the word, which says that recycling means processing something “in order to ...

Right now, Miami-Dade County generates 5 million tons of trash each year and only 37 percent of that is ever recycled. And ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that ...

BANGKOK, THAILAND - SEPTEMBER 1 : Worker Kamol Srilaloong manually separates plastic bottles at the Wongpanit Suvarnabhumi recycle collection center on September 1, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. People ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — After six months of no curbside recycling in Jacksonville, the service is back up and running for Duval County residents. If you haven’t recycled over the last six months, or you ...

SACRAMENTO — January 1 marks the two-year anniversary of California's organic recycling law, which requires cities to begin collecting food waste separate from the trash. Beginning next month, the law ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Teen Vogue. In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside ...