A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.

Waste Management, the nation’s biggest recycler, is spending $1.4 billion to become more efficient. How it could pay off.

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For decades, we’ve been told: Recycle! “If we’re not using recycled paper, we’re cutting down more trees!” says Lynn Hoffman, co-president of Eureka Recycling. Recycling paper (or cardboard) does save ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

The organization says the standard underpins the new certification to build trust in the chemical recycling of plastics.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Recycling is a vital part of keeping our communities clean and our environment healthy—but not all recyclables are created equal. Republic Services’ own Bill Brinkley and Jason ...

TerraCycle and Loop founder and CEO Tom Szaky says the economics of the recycling business are broken in key ways, but consumer and corporate interest in building a circular economy continues to grow.

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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 ...