What happens to that single-use plastic bottle after you, a conscientious citizen, place it in a recycling bin? Most people, ...

In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable ... Food scraps or non-recyclable plastics in recycling bins slash the value of these waste streams. This year, Australia's second most ...

That means only about 5% to 6% of U.S. plastic waste is recycled, down from a peak of 9.5% in 2014 and 8.7% in 2018, before China stopped ... end up in the blue recycling bins.

Four Hong Kong secondary school students have invented a rubbish bin that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically sort household waste and alert the user when the bin is full.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Originally promoted in the 1970s to raise consumption awareness, this catchy, alliterative phrase has been drilled into the minds of U.S. residents for decades. One would be ...

Until 2018, municipalities across the country could turn a profit by selling recyclables to China, which processed ... So when a recycling bin is filled with household plastics, “virtually ...

South Korea aims to achieve a 20% recycling rate for strategic critical minerals by 2030, as intensifying trade tensions ...