Industry groups say the situation has put critical EPA recycling, waste and manufacturing priorities in limbo, along with federal jobs. But the EPA says there’s “zero uncertainty” on such programs.

Both the City of Portland and Multnomah County require that 75% of waste from construction projects be recycled.

Jenae Floerke and John Nephew of Atlas Games hold up items formed out of recycled plastic at the Replay Workshop, a new experiment to reduce plastic waste. PROCTOR — A game publishing company is ...

It's a weekend, friends from out of town are visiting here for the first time, and before they throw away their soda cans they ask: "Do you recycle?" In Yakima, where there is no publicly owned option ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Electric vehicles may be a hot way to reduce your carbon footprint, but they're not 100% environmentally friendly. Most times, the batteries running the cars aren't re-usable. That ...

The greedy machinery thumps, clanks, whirs and growls. Conveyor belts whisk along plastic bottles. Massive disks lift slabs of cardboard. A magnet plucks out metal cans. Every day, 150 trucks pull up ...

On a global basis, only 14 percent of plastic packaging is collected for recycling, according to The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation ...

Auditors found that reports on recycling of construction and demolition waste from library projects were unreliable.

Beginning with a new budget year July 1, the city of Kingsport will pick up the blue bins formerly used for recycling, and if you’ve become accustomed to regularly using both bins the city provides, ...