Welcome to the inaugural Sustainability with Sarah column, a new Q&A column from the Greenville News focused on answering reader questions about climate and the environment in the Upstate! Have a ...

Only about a third of the glass used in the U.S. gets recycled. That’s much lower than Europe, where some countries have recycling rates above 90%. So what gives? And what can we do about it?

Perfume bottles are often designed with high-quality materials such as glass, metal, or plastic. Once a fragrance is used up, ...

Weyerhaeuser Co., the main recycling company in Wichita, Kansas, says it will stop taking glass bottles Dec 1. Glass costs more to ship than it is worth to the processors who melt down old bottles and ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of The Star’s series “Talking Trash.” All of the stories were inspired by questions and concerns we heard from Kansas Citians through listening sessions, an online ...

The other day I got a call from one of my in-laws asking about recycling. She lives in Georgia, and wanted to know why she couldn’t recycle her glass. And to that, since I don’t run her town’s ...

When Salt Lake City resident Wilma Odell watches people at City Creek Center toss plates of food into the recycling bins, she cringes. Odell, 81, has always been passionate about knowing what you can ...

Why can’t we put glass in the recycling at my residence in Frisco? It’s not a problem at my home in Houston. Is there someplace nearby where I can recycle my glass? Having different rules for ...

A new European Union project aims to increase the recycling of flat glass windows and facades from building demolitions, and keep that material out of landfill and aggregate. British Glass, the ...