For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more than two-thirds of that glass never ...

Re “The Complicated Truth About Recycling,” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 3): We all need to recycle paper, cardboard, glass and metal, and compost yard waste and food scraps.

From microplastics clogging up our oceans to landfills leaching out dangerous chemicals, plastic waste is a serious and ...

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

Have you ever stood in front of a recycling bin, holding a yogurt cup, wondering if you're doing the right thing? Most of us have. We've been told for decades that tossing items into those blue bins ...