Trying to recycle the wrong materials only clogs up the system. We asked a recycling expert about the dos and don'ts of recycling takeout boxes.

“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.

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

Republic Services' recycling facility sits a few hundred feet from homes and businesses in Hazelwood. A recycling center in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood is looking to expand into garbage ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Is recycling working? We all assume it is when we put our recycling bins out on the curb every week. But the truth is much of it, especially plastic, is ending up in our landfills ...