We're told to recycle everything. Sort your plastics by number, rinse your glass jars, break down your cardboard boxes. Honestly, it's exhausting. Yet what if I told you that most of your effort is ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Recycling can be a somewhat time-consuming task; so can you please provide some benefits of taking the time to separate my trash? Recycling, which turns materials that would otherwise be incinerated ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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.