When people think about environmental issues and reducing waste, recycling cardboard shipping boxes or plastics often comes ...

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YOU CAN'T HELP but feel like you're getting away with something -- sneaking a greasy pizza box into the big green yard-waste cart. You can put those guilty feelings aside, because pizza boxes are ...

Americans will consume more than 12 million pizzas for the Super Bowl, and millions of those pizza boxes will end up in a landfill. But the recycling industry is changing its tune on what Americans ...

This is where trash turns into treasure. Millions of disgusting, leaking bags of rotting food collected from New York City streets every week are digested and spat back out as “black gold” as part of ...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – The city of Southfield is encouraging residents to be more mindful about what they throw away by offering an alternative to traditional trash disposal. Starting Monday, Feb. 9, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The primary company accepting compostable materials across Colorado’s Front Range plans to stop taking packaging and service ware such as carryout containers ...