At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/CNS Camryn Woods is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s ...

Australia's National Waste Policy also focuses on recycling, rather than reuse or repair. This is despite recycling being the last resort in the " waste hierarchy," just slightly above disposal. Solar ...

America Recycles Day is coming up next month. It’s a day dedicated to promoting recycling in the U.S. But one Bay Area organization is getting a head start. Rethink Waste, the waste management company ...

We need to rethink “reuse, reduce, recycle”. Based on the book by Jenny Price. Recycling has been the gold standard for fighting pollution for decades. But most plastics can’t be recycled and the ...

The ReVT Network is holding a Zoom call meeting on May 13 to kickstart the Reduce, Reuse and Repair Project to encourage Vermonters to create a circular economy where goods are repaired and reused.

While recycling campaigns can help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are now saying that it’s masked the glaring problem of over-production and de-emphasized other waste reduction ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Chicagoland residents are not recycling as much as the rest of the country. While the national recycling rate is 30%, Chicagoland residents recycle roughly 20% of waste, ...

Evidence of the economic opportunities that a circular economy could bring is mounting. The potential environmental impact is also clear. The move to a circular economy—a system that aims to reduce, ...

Big F&B companies are taking steps to advance waste solutions, even as current product packaging continues to accumulate. No one can question that we have a global problem with food and beverage waste ...

Michigan’s Recycle Ann Arbor has launched Boost Reuse, a program focused on reuse and repair. Partially funded by a waste reduction sponsorship from the Washtenaw County Water Resources Materials ...

The Brussels-based WEEE Forum says the EU’s collection tracking methodology does not reward repair and reuse efforts. States the WEEE Forum about the EU obsolete electronics minimum collection rate ...

Deepika Mathur has received research funding from the Northern Territory and federal governments. Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the ...