Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large blue ...

In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin. Once collected, the mixed ...