recycling

Here’s a problem you’ve probably run into when you go to a fast-food restaurant and order your favorite meal: When you pull up through the drive-thru and ask for ketchup or other sauces, you’re given pounds and pounds of single-use packets that you’ll never finish. So a lot of us just…throw them away. Turns out those little packets are...

Your fast food burger and fries comes with a supersized environmental price tag. From the methane emissions created by the beef industry to the sauce packets that get dumped into landfills, there are a number of reasons why fast food is hard on the planet. Here are some ways you can make a difference — starting by changing what you order.

Environmental activist, who wears a suit made of trash, is trying to call attention to how much stuff Americans throw away in the garbage. Angie Crouch reports on the NBC4 News at 5pm on Monday, May 16, 2022.

Plastics recycling is littered with misleading claims and waste. Here’s what that recycling symbol really means, its history and why more than 75% of your plastic waste ends up in landfills

After retiring from a career buying wine for a grocery store chain in Washington state, Chris Lueck realized there wasn’t a way to recycle glass wine bottles in rural parts of his state. Because of that, many of those bottles were ending up in landfills. Lueck created Ground2Ground, a company that pulverizes used bottles and turns them into sand that...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’ administration announced Friday a proposal to increase consumer recycling of cans and bottles by temporarily doubling the refund amount from 5 cents for a 12-ounce container to a dime.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is proposing to temporarily double California’s typical nickel refunds for bottles and cans to boost recycling

To pick up your $20 gas card, drop off at least 3,000 lbs of iron, tin, cardboard, newspaper or trash. Chuck Henry reports March 30, 2022.

As the EV industry ramps up, it could be hindered by a global shortage of nickel, a key component in most lithium ion batteries

A rise in returns is filling Liquidity Services warehouses with unwanted goods from Amazon and Target and growing liquidation to a $644 billion market

The pilot project is part of a broader effort by the nation’s largest grocer to move toward reusable, recyclable or industrially compostable packaging.

As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, oil and gas companies are looking towards plastic as their next major growth market.

The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers around the U.S. that some cities have had to delay or suspend garbage and recycling pickup, angering residents shocked that governments can’t perform this most basic of functions

The nation’s largest mandatory residential food-waste recycling program is set to take effect in California in January.

Easy changes to the way we gift wrap, send cards, decorate and entertain can cut out a lot of waste — and even save some money

Do you know how to dispose of your electronic waste properly? If you don’t you’re not alone. Most Americans don’t even know what E-waste is, let alone know how to correctly discard it.

Groups like Buy Nothing or Freecycle have helped people connect with their communities, cut down on waste and even stick to their budgets.

A social enterprise in Los Angeles is trying to combat two problems with its recycling center: low recycling rates for electronic waste and high unemployment rates for formerly incarcerated individuals and those previously involved in gangs.

McDonald’s hopes to cut 90% of the amount of virgin fossil fuel-based plastic it used in the toys in 2018.

The issue of what to do with turbine blades when they’re no longer needed is a headache for the industry.