The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues that reduce effectiveness.

Recycling is a local enterprise, which means every system isn’t able to process all the same materials. Some take glass; some ...

APPLETON, Wisconsin (WGBA) — Separating your trash from your recyclables should be easy, but what happens when a plastic bottle ends up in the wrong bin? Fortunately, there’s a new tool being used in ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — KC McCreery doesn’t know how often you think about waste infrastructure, but he thinks about it every single day. “The thing that bothers me the most about landfills is their actual ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. We talk a lot about CO2 as a greenhouse gas and for good reason. Billions of metric tons of it go into the atmosphere every year, creating ...

Area residents can expect to see a lot of activity over the next two weeks as the pace of work picks up on an expansion project at the county landfill on the western edge of Sahuarita. Crews and ...

After two decades as an industrial designer working on products like augmented reality glasses Lauryn Morris was ready for a change. “I was really becoming jaded with the status quo of the linear ...