This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Research out of Scotland suggests that the chopping, shredding, and washing of plastic in recycling facilities may turn as much as 6% to 13% of incoming waste into microplastics—tiny, toxic particles ...

Conspiracy theories are for right-wing nuts and doomsday preppers—or so I thought. But a few months ago, I started hearing whispers among my liberal family and friends. Recycling, they alleged, was a ...

More than half (52 percent) of Americans feel they don’t have access to recycling, particularly young people and low-income families, but that’s not to say they don’t want to recycle. According to The ...

Recycling education centers are opening their doors to residents and visitors across the country to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the recycling process. Through interactive exhibits, guided tours ...

For years, the plastics industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense and that petrochemical ...

Americans don’t know how to recycle — and that lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to being green, according to new research. A new survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that 62 percent worry that a ...

You might think I was crazy or in total denial about the environment. It turns out, though, that many of the things we hold as truths about recycling may not be exactly what we thought after all. The ...

Although some may dismiss recycling as unnecessary or inconvenient, Earth Day is a good reminder of why we should care. By reducing our trash output, reusing what we already have, and recycling old ...

You probably know that glass is no longer recycled in Arlington, but do you know that recycling placed in garbage bags is automatically thrown away at the processing plant? We sent ten questions ...

Though Christmas is behind us, you may still have some post-holiday cleanup to take care of. Everyone knows how to do dishes, break down boxes and sweep up. One thing that can cause some seasonal ...

IT IS an awful lot of rubbish. Since 1960 the amount of municipal waste being collected in America has nearly tripled, reaching 245m tonnes in 2005. According to European Union statistics, the amount ...