If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

Today, economic development is impossible without packaging: it makes products convenient to use and recognizable, protects them from mechanical damage, and ensures their transportation. Increasingly, ...

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) has announced its new Recycling Convenience Center, which opened in November 2023, is expanding its list of accepted materials, including large ...

Columbia Solid Waste Utility administrators hosted an open house Tuesday. The event allowed members of the public to ask questions and comment on the future of Columbia’s recycling program. Columbia ...

Health concerns have been raised over plans to open the UK's first plastic film recycling facility. Endolys Ltd announced plans to install pyrolysis oil production units at the former Cleveland Bridge ...

Apple says it will invest $500 million in a magnet plant in Texas and an MP Materials recycling facility in California that will focus on rare earth elements recovery. The recycling facility planned ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Recycling has been a staple of everyday life for decades. We've been told it's a solution to managing waste, especially regarding paper, aluminum, glass, and plastic. So, on ...

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“This is a recycling facility in its purest form,” said Terri Graham, CEO of the new Solid Waste Disposal Authority. Housed in a new $25 million, 60,000 square foot facility, Baldwin County is ...

TACOMA – Truckloads of materials – aluminum cans, cardboard, old newspaper – are carted into Pioneer Recycling Services’ facility in Tacoma. These items are sorted with the help of workers and ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...