Axion International has developed a process to reuse hard plastic in building materials that are strong enough to supplant steel and concrete, forgoing the trip to a landfill.

New documents highlight the role of the Coca-Cola Company in persuading the National Park Service director to scuttle a planned ban on plastic water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park.

New documents highlight the role of the Coca-Cola Company in persuading the National Park Service director to scuttle a planned ban on plastic water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park.

New observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers’ understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This process allows galaxies to build successive generatio…

A report from the Government Accountability Office says the Department of Energy has not adequately sized up the state of technical progress for the many technologies that would be needed for recycling.

State lawmakers in Nebraska will vote Tuesday on a deal with TransCanada that calls for moving the path of the controversial 1,700-mile pipeline.

Researchers argue that solutions for safe disposal of electronic textiles, which carry harmful metals and rare earths, should be found now, when the field is young.

With New York City far behind cities like San Francisco, there generally is nowhere to put a plastic lunch container but a wastebasket.

Each year, 3.8 million trees go into the manufacture of 57 billion disposable pairs of chopsticks in China. But awareness is growing, and some restaurants and consumers are switching to reusables.

Realizing that its recycling rate has declined, the city studies garbage disposal and recycling practices in cities ranging from San Francisco to Seoul.