Every little bit helps. But doing it wrong can actually make matters worse. Credit...Naomi Anderson-Subryan Supported by By Winston Choi-Schagrin Recycling can have big environmental benefits. For one ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

Americans are deeply committed to recycling —according to the EPA, in 2013, we generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons. That’s a roughly one-third ...

Most of us don’t have as much difficulty getting recycling right as the folks in Florence County, where The Post and Courier’s Seth Taylor discovered this summer that 92% of all material placed in ...

Diplomats negotiating guidelines for an international convention on hazardous wastes this month in Switzerland debated a new section on the “chemical recycling” of plastic debris fouling the global ...