Pittsburgh City Council Member Erika Strassburger introduced an overhaul of the city’s municipal waste and recycling code earlier this month. The legislation was introduced with the hopes of ...

Radioactive materials that have been inadvertently incorporated into scrap metal and semi-finished metal products may pose potentially severe health, environmental and financial consequences. Although ...

Two plastics recycling associations -- the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) -- are expressing concern about the ...

Every little plastic bauble you interact with has some sort of recycling code on it somewhere. Now that we’re producing plastic 3D printed parts at home, it would be a good idea to agree on how to ...

Earth Day is here again, serving as an annual reminder of the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle our way to a better planet. When it comes to the last part of that familiar three-”R” mantra, most ...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 9, 4:15 p.m. ET) — The leading association for plastic recyclers has switched course and now is affirming its support for the existing resin identification code (RIC). The Association ...

COMMENTARY-- Don't get me wrong--I'm as big a fan of object-oriented programming as any other technology pundit. I think it's great, the way it lets you write a chunk of code and then reuse it ...

The Philippines has been reported as one of the world’s leading plastic polluters due to our dependence on sachets and improper waste disposal. According to WWF-Philippines, the National Solid Waste ...

To increase recyclingin municipalities, sometimes it takes more than just encouraging citizens to be environmentally friendly. Incentive-based recycling may have a strange ring to it -- especially to ...

Case Western Reserve University has rolled out updates to its recycling program, making it easier for the campus community to reduce waste. A new QR code system on landfill bin signs allows users to ...