The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.

Eliminating labeling enables both residential and commercial composting systems to improve sorting methods, balance material ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last ... would be replaced with ones that decompose naturally. Harasawa’s mission ...

Four hundred million tonnes of plastic waste are produced every year worldwide. More than seven billion tonnes have been ...

Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

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 ...

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Fulfilling that pledge of what the city called “single-stream recycling” has proven trickier than brochures handed out at the time ... No. 1 plastic, same as a water bottle, but Waste ...

One of the things we found, though not recently, as it has been around for a while, is the private sector participation model ...

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