Do you want to recycle more but are afraid of getting it wrong? You're not alone. According to the 2024 WM Recycling Report, ...

We think a lot about where products come from when we buy them, less so about where they go when we're finished. When we throw things away, this is "away": mountains of garbage across acres of land, ...

Food waste builds up quickly in every household, and much of it ends up in landfill, where it produces harmful emissions. Recycling it at home reduces environmental impact, saves money, and creates ...

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch -- except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, ...

Central Ohio businesses have an unprecedented need for recycled materials, and at the moment, the demand outweighs the supply. This is something that I knew very little about when I joined the Solid ...

Phone upgrades continue to offer less, and we're keeping our phones longer than we used to. But whenever we do eventually upgrade to the next big phone, we're throwing an awful lot of our old ones ...

We throw away and burn increasing amounts of waste that could easily be recycled. Norway's waste policy is failing because of inaccurate measurement methods, unreliable data and a lack of transparency ...

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are ...

A new factory operated by Renewcell, a textile recycling company in Sweden, is the first step in turning old clothes into new, high-quality fashion. About a half-dozen start-ups around the world are ...