AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Chicagoland residents are not recycling as much as the rest of the country. While the national recycling rate is 30%, Chicagoland residents recycle roughly 20% of waste, ...

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...

Pembroke Pines is now home to an eco-friendly flagship — one of the largest recycling plants in the United States. WM Recycling South Florida, operated by trash giant Waste Management, is opening its ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Yale’s ongoing construction on upper Science Hill will feature 600,000 gross square feet for the School of Engineering and Applied Science and more. In ...

It’s no secret that New York City, like many densely populated urban areas throughout history, has a trash and rodent problem. Mountains of bloated trash bags —many containing food waste that attract ...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — Plastic bags of dark powder sit on a metal shelf. The powder contains minerals that came from lithium-ion batteries and are destined to be made into batteries again. That, in ...

Ames is building a new Resource Recovery and Recycling (R3) Campus to handle solid waste, recyclables and yard waste. The new facility will replace the current 50-year-old waste-to-energy plant. It is ...

Worn Again Technologies has unveiled a new Accelerator plant designed to scale its textile-to-fibre recycling process.