Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false ...

The University does bale and sell cardboard directly to paper mills, Environmental Services Director Bill Nelligan wrote to ...

Difficulty in Recycling: Unlike whole sheets of paper, which can be turned back into usable paper products, shredded paper ...

After reading the first part of our recycling guide, you’re a sorting expert. You’ve put your pizza box in the paper ...

Now this week the emphasis is going to be on litter. From Franklin Boulevard to wooded lots, country roads and nearby schools, construction sites, parking lots, we are being overrun with simple, ...

Say our families must survive before we think about schoolIncreasing necessity for many children to support their families has led to a noticeable rise in school-age children taking on menial jobs ...

The D.C. City Council introduced new legislation Jan. 15 to increase the cost of purchasing bottled beverages with the ...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

Many items people throw in their blue recycling bin can't actually be accepted at the city's recycling facility. So what’s ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...