Environmental groups Natural Resources Defense Council and Californians Against Waste believe the bill’s recently approved ...

What happened: The Natural Resources Defense Council and Californians Against Waste announced their intent to sue a few days ...

Why it matters: California offers cash incentives for recycling beverage containers, but contamination and improper sorting can send recyclables straight to the landfill. Biggest mistakes: Plastic ...

A group of plaintiffs representing various trade associations and industry groups filed a lawsuit March 17 challenging the ...

Who is suing?: NRDC and Californians Against Waste announced plans to challenge California’s SB 54 regulations in court. What’s the dispute?: They claim the rules unlawfully exempt some plastic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California pays people up to 10 cents for recycling certain bottles and cans. The state credits the program with reducing waste, ...

Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas more potent and damaging in the short term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels. California's goal is to keep ...

California lawmakers have approved an update to the state's bottle recycling law that will add an estimated 200 million containers per year into the recycling stream by including fruit and vegetable ...

SACRAMENTO — It's National Recycling Day and state leaders are not wasting any opportunities to look ahead at what we are all leaving behind. Sareeta Raddy is hopeful about helping Mother Earth with a ...

Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ...