We visit an 80,000-square-foot facility in La Vergne, Tennessee, where the cartridges are taken apart and readied for their next life.

Businesses are reviving an old model to reduce single-use plastic in an effort to curb plastic pollution and fight climate change.

The company takes used and discarded symbols of the pandemic and turns them into items such as coat hangers and classroom rulers.

Municipalities around the country have had to delay or reschedule trash pickup days.

The first thing you need to do is find out what your local municipality accepts. And don’t put recyclables in plastic bags.

Volunteers on the Atlanta Hawks’ Zero Waste Squad help fans put compostable cups and plates and recyclable cans and bottles into the correct bins.

British and American researchers have developed a “super-enzyme” to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of recycling of plastic waste.

For architect William McDonough, an economy of the future is a “circular economy.”

The Circular Economy bill is supported by hundreds of organizations. But the California Chamber of Commerce opposes it.

One Pennsylvania-based researcher says she wants companies that produce plastic that winds up as waste to be accountable for it.