CHARDON, Ohio — Chardon residents will see a new company handling their trash and recycling later this year after city officials selected a locally owned firm through a competitive bidding process.

Recycling is being called into question as landfills keep growing. When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on ...

Despite some modest progress over the past two decades, Canada's waste diversion efforts remain wanting: according to the ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

The amount of trash going to the Springfield landfill has doubled in the last decade, exceeding capacity predictions. Although 42% of the waste is recyclable, cost and lack of awareness hinder ...

Waukegan started a two-month pilot commercial recycling program Monday with one receptacle next to a garbage can outside City Hall, and a second one at the train station, as the city makes an effort ...