In the future, microorganisms could help return hard-to-recycle plastics to the recycling loop. Nick Wierckx, a molecular ...

Waste Management, the nation’s biggest recycler, is spending $1.4 billion to become more efficient. How it could pay off.

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Spinners generally see it as the safer option to start their recycling activities with post-industrial waste. These raw ...

In the corner of my basement sits a dusty Rubbermaid bin crammed with a decade’s worth of outdated and obsolete electronics, otherwise known as e-waste. It’s a tangle of cords, cables, clickers, ...