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 ...

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...

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 ...

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 ...