Alex Jordan is an associate professor of plastics engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. What Happens to the Plastic in Your Recycling Bin? Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, ...

Informational tables featured staggered “how-to” demonstrations about living a low- or zero-waste lifestyle, hands-on presentations, eclectic activities, and lots of prizes.

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The legislation would make more beverage containers eligible for deposits and double the deposit fee to 10 cents.

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Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Alex Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Stout Every week, ...

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A leading candidate for prime minister of Canada is promising to roll back plans to reduce the reliance on single-use ...

New York lawmakers should act and turn those cans and other packaging wastes into cash to make headway on the threat of the state’s trash tsunami.

Thomaston, Georgia, has become a hotbed for debate about the world’s largest incoming plastic-to-oil conversion plant. Is ...