This Earth Day, find out how California laws are protecting the local environment while creating financial benefits to ...

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Recycling plays a crucial part in our daily lives by keeping the environment clean. It is simple and yet free. Recycling helps prevent waste from going to landfills, reduces pollution and saves energy ...

Californians recycle because “they’re attached to the environment they live in,” says Rachel Machi Wagoner, the director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, known as ...

Whenever focus group participants are asked whether they care about the environment and if so, what sort of “environmentally friendly” actions they take, it is an absolute certainty that at least half ...

Advanced recycling offers something conventional recycling never could — a way to truly undo plastic.

Since I was a kid, the recycling bin has been a constant presence in my life. My parents taught me from a young age which items to recycle. Doing the dishes always included rinsing out the plastic ...

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Do you know which items can and can't be recycled? Make our world greener this Earth Day by identifying which items are ...

As a public university that’s been on the cutting edge of environmental issues for decades, it may come as a surprise that UC Santa Barbara’s campus bike ...