As a beauty editor, I inevitably collect copious amounts of products for work — and every few months, this leaves me with a hefty pile of empty or used products to dispose of. As someone who regularly ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

Recycling is a nightmare. We all want to reduce waste— 93% of Americans support recycling—but in the real world, many/most people don't really know what's recyclable and what isn't. So we toss every ...

What happens to that single-use plastic bottle after you, a conscientious citizen, place it in a recycling bin? Most people, if they think about it at all, assume it really will be recycled, probably ...

Matthew Derry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

“We put 50 billion garments into landfill every year in the US,” says Kristy Caylor, founder and CEO of For Days. And unfortunately, even recycling efforts aren’t always a clean solution. For example, ...

It’s time to come clean about recycling. I’ve been doing it for years. Or so I thought. A couple of things have come to light as both Beaufort County and the Town of Hilton Head Island take new steps ...

Plastic is everywhere, and most of it ends up in landfills or incinerated because recycling is excruciatingly difficult to do. Yet companies that rely on plastics production, including oil giant ...

While South Carolina residents may be eager to recycle used items, it can be confusing to navigate the appropriate way to handle materials or know where to drop them off. Each county has its own ...

Only 17% of Pittsburgh's garbage gets recycled PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Is recycling working? We all assume it is when we put our recycling bins out on the curb every week.