Columbia recently announced that it would no longer pick up recycling for a while due to staffing shortages. While this seems like a major setback for the environment, recycling is a rapidly failing ...

Re “The Complicated Truth About Recycling,” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 3): We all need to recycle paper, cardboard, glass and metal, and compost yard waste and food scraps.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more than two-thirds of that glass never ...

Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don’t think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for “new balls please.” ...

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate ...

Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don't think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for "new balls ...

For weeks, KPRC 2 has been reporting on the recycling pickup delay problem plaguing residents across the City of Houston. According to the city website, the recycling pickup schedule was set to be ...