For decades, Americans were told that recycling plastic was helping save the planet. But according to industry documents, ...

You might think I was crazy or in total denial about the environment. It turns out, though, that many of the things we hold as truths about recycling may not be exactly what we thought after all. The ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Recycling education centers are opening their doors to residents and visitors across the country to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the recycling process. Through interactive exhibits, guided tours ...

IT IS an awful lot of rubbish. Since 1960 the amount of municipal waste being collected in America has nearly tripled, reaching 245m tonnes in 2005. According to European Union statistics, the amount ...

More than half (52 percent) of Americans feel they don’t have access to recycling, particularly young people and low-income families, but that’s not to say they don’t want to recycle. According to The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. workers sorting plastic bottles - cazawi/Shutterstock Recycling can be a complicated business, and plastic recycling makes it even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about businesses creating a more sustainable economic system. The pervasiveness of plastic has become a global concern. An ...