Unclear labelling as well as a lack of recycling facilities at work or in public-facing businesses is an issue.

According to research by The Recycling Partnership (TRP), in 2019, 14% of people surveyed said they were “not very confident” that things put in recycling bins were actually recycled. In 2020, that ...

Flip over almost any plastic container in your kitchen and you'll find a small triangle stamped into the bottom, usually with ...

Convincing more people to recycle, and more effectively, is possible with the right behavioral marketing, said a university professor on Thursday at a conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Maryam ...

Would you rather have 10 cents in your pocket or a 1-in-10,000 shot at $1,000? Many people would choose the latter, and that could be the key to getting people to recycle more, a new University of ...

Only one-third of Americans claim to do their part when it comes to recycling, according to new research. A poll of 2,000 Americans revealed that beyond the 34% who take recycling very seriously, ...

In Naperville, city officials have noticed a strange trend. "Since 2015, the amount of waste and recycling per household, on average, was going down," said Ben Mjolsness, the Sustainability Manager ...

RecycleBank, a Philadelphia company that rewards people for recycling at home, said it has raised $13.1 million in a first round of funding. RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners were the investors in the ...

UNtrash It, an initiative designed to keep unwanted clothes out of landfills that launched last April in New York City, is expanding to Dallas and Los Angeles this Earth Month. Last year in the New ...

MISTAKES. MANY OF US ARE MAKING. AT THE JOHN’S DISPOSAL RECYCLING FACILITY IN NORWAY. WORKERS PROCESS ABOUT 500 TONS OF RECYCLABLES A DAY. THIS IS A FREE SHORT LINE. SO ALL THESE GUYS ARE PULLING OUT ...