Peanut butter jars, takeout containers and soft plastic wrap often end up in the recycling bin, contaminating viable plastic, ...

I live in a fairly small home, but the most compact space of all is the kitchen. It's so small that there isn't enough room ...

New technology is being tested at UMass Amherst to sort trash and recyclables. Knowing what to throw into the garbage and put into the recycling bin can be confusing, but at UMass, they’ve been ...

Sorting trash into the right categories is pretty much a daily bother. Who hasn’t stood there in front of the two, three, five or more bins (depending on your area and country), pondering which ...