You may not think about it when tossing that empty cat food can into your curbside recycling container, but downstream there is a small army of people at Penn Waste trying to separate usable items ...

Exploring the sorting process of recycling can help Northwest Indiana residents better understand the parameters of recycling right. One common myth is that all recyclables end up in landfills ...

Single-sort recycling is coming to Mankato, eventually. Neither the city of Mankato nor its hauler, Waste Management, is saying much about their months-long negotiations over the recycling changes.

On the concrete floor of Inland Empire Paper sat a 1,500-pound bale of waste paper ready to be recycled into new paper. The bale came from a modern single-stream recycling system that takes mixed-up ...

Mixed C&D material, with its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink makeup, can represent a significant challenge for recyclers. That’s not to say that it’s impossible to arrive at a variety of clean end ...