The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...

Glass belongs in the glass container—that’s obvious from the name. But can the lid stay on the empty jam jar, or should it be removed? Many people likely ponder this question when standing in front of ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

On a recent weekday morning, employees at the new Glass Half Full recycling facility in Chalmette were dumping thousands of empty booze bottles and spaghetti sauce jars into machinery that pulverizes ...