Each week a garbage truck pulls up and workers collect the contents of your blue bin. Your mixed recycling ... Compare that ...

Beginning last fall, mountains of wastepaper and plastic grew ... Could they shorten the list of materials collected in recycling bins—and instead throw the material that no longer had value ...

With single-stream recycling, recyclables go into one bin, which a truck delivers to a materials-recovery facility, such as Willimantic Waste Paper in Willimantic, Connecticut. There, a largely ...

Global changes in the handling of recyclable material are causing some communities ... No. 2 and No. 5 plastics, newspapers, wastepaper, plastic and glass bottles, food and beverage containers ...

Refuse cans for recyclables were delivered to residents in Modesto, Calif., Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com Modesto city employees perform random inspections on waste bins ...

Their upcycled material was stronger and more insulating than traditional, plastic foam-based cushioning. Among the many kinds of trash that accumulate within a home, wastepaper is one of the most ...