Where new 2026 recycling and waste laws are taking effect

Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Vermont and Washington have new laws, including electronics and battery EPR and ...

Green up the holiday aftermath: What to know about reducing waste

American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...
KCRW

Is Recycling Rubbish? John Tierney, Adam Minter, Wes Thompson Sort Through the Issues

Americans are deeply committed to recycling —according to the EPA, in 2013, we generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons. That’s a roughly one-third ...
NPR

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic-makers used recycling as a fig leaf

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...