When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...

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First, I would like to say that I hate columns loaded with numbers and this column is chock-full of them. It is so easy to be overwhelmed. Your head starts spinning and before you know it you’ve got ...

In recent years efforts have increased to have manufacture play a bigger role in boosting recycling numbers and reduce landfill waste. Pressing Matters Stefanie Mills sits down with Kerrin O’Brien ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —Sioux Falls continues to grow, but recycling numbers are not. “Overall they’re stagnant. Residential numbers we believe are down. So the city numbers that came out recently ...