HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Recycling was already a mess. Now a study finds that one facility may emit 3 million pounds of microplastics a year. Now, an alarming new study has found that even when plastic makes it to a recycling ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. Engineers have modelled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could ...

One of the biggest problems that we may face in the not too distant future is having to safely dispose of depleted electric vehicle battery packs. But the doomsday scenario that many are getting ...

Question: "I am interested in what happens to my recycling materials after I drop them off at the transfer station. Where do they go? How do they (aluminum, steel, and plastic) get separated? Why did ...

Every week when recycling day rolls around you drag the can of empty jars and bottles down to the curb and you send them off to start a new life as a "new" recycled product. But have you ever thought ...