Joshua Costa is the owner of Sleep Well Recycling, a mattress recycling company based in Burlington, Vermont.

This week the DOE announced a $20 million grant to partially finance this new manufacturing facility. It’s part of an emerging EV battery reuse ecosystem.

The law’s aimed at improving a clothing recycling rate of only 15 percent.

E-waste is filled with old parts and precious metals that could be worth a lot to the right people.

Another example of how hard it can be to recycle polymers.

Single-stream recycling is convenient for consumers, but difficult for recycling companies. It requires a long and complicated process to make trash valuable.

We tour a materials recovery facility in California, where the stuff consumers toss into recycling bins is sorted.

Diverting textiles from landfills is more difficult and more expensive than doing so for paper and glass. A group of formerly incarcerated workers is paving the way.

The sand Glass Half Full creates from processed bottles is repurposed for flood disaster relief and mitigating coastal erosion, among other things.

A new device will allow the same sheet of paper to be erased and reprinted 10 times, cutting waste and carbon emissions.