Only twice in her seven years teaching Waukegan High School students English as a second language did Milagros Ortega feel compelled to give every student involved an A on a project. But, after ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

If your trash and recycling bins are already overflowing with cardboard boxes, glass bottles and debris from holiday celebrations, you're not alone. But instead of sending it all to the landfill, ...

New flexible packaging films have a unique combination of performance, durability and easy scalability to help strengthen the broader recycling ecosystem, paving the way for stronger, cleaner ...

Recycling our materials saves resources, diverts tons of material from our landfills and helps create healthier communities and a cleaner planet. In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, here are some simple ...

Fayette County Recycling Center was launched in 2021 to provide residents with a drive-through, self-serve facility where they can drop off traditional and hard-to-recycle items year-round. When it ...

Researchers have developed a recyclable alternative to a durable class of plastics used for items like car tires, replacement hip joints and bowling balls. Cornell University researchers have ...

Earth Day is coming up on April 22, and as you probably learned in elementary school, one way to care for the Earth is to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." However, recycling isn't always simple. There are ...

Perhaps fittingly, state lawmakers are recycling proposals if not actual legislation from last year as they address how to encourage the recycling of more packaging and reduce the amount of waste that ...

A new method to recycle wind turbine blades without using harsh chemicals resulted in the recovery of high-strength glass fibers and resins that allowed researchers to re-purpose the materials to ...