Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled.

Birmingham waste collections have been heavily disrupted by members of the Unite union in a dispute with the council.

In Montgomery County, Maryland, county officials have announced the expansion of single-family residential curbside recycling ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

Mountains of rubbish continue to be a common sight in parts of Birmingham as the dispute between the city council and the Unite union rumbles on. Indefinite strike action began on 11 March although ...

Rapid transit services, like Rapid Ride and Dial-a-Ride, will not operate on Good Friday but will return to normal schedules ...

San Diego's Department of Environmental Services has revised its initial cost assessment on trash collection after a series ...

Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would impose at 10-cent deposit on the purchase of each bottled or canned beverage. That deposit would then be refunded if the ...

The rollout of new wheelie bins in a council area is set to begin on Monday. New Forest District Council will begin ...

Changes to bin collections will also be taking place across west Suffolk. Following an extraordinary meeting of West Suffolk Council on October 15, the council agreed on plans to allow recycling to ...

Belfast City Council is set to activate a new zero-tolerance policy which would see overfilled bins issued with red tags and ...

The City of Calgary will be adjusting recycling, organics and waste pick up in some areas as they add routes to accomodate a number of new communities.