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New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle has released its Zero Waste Bags, which are designed to make recycling more accessible for Americans. In partnership with more than 20 collection service ...

A customer carries mustard greens and daikon in plastic produce bags. Such bags will have to be compostable under legislation awaiting the governor's signature. (Dan Koeck / For The Times) Two months ...

Lorain County’s plastic bag recycling contest kept nearly 300 pounds out of landfills and rewarded schools with recycled ...

OAKWOOD, Ohio – Beth Biggins-Ramer likens a recycling plant to a cell phone. Give it a year and the technology will be new and improved, said the executive director of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste ...

Cornell’s annual Beyond Waste Campaign, which spanned from Feb. 14 to March 31 this year, is an initiative run by the Campus Sustainability Office that aims to create awareness, action and community ...

Two months after state lawmakers passed sweeping legislation designed to reduce plastic waste, they’ve ponied up and passed more than a half-dozen new bills that will further reduce and clean up ...