Is recycling worth it? Not according to the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. “Recycling is pointless,” Musk wrote in mid-December to 207.8 million followers on the social media platform he owns. The ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

2025 was not a good year for recycling markets. Prices went down for everything in your bin. The only real difference is how ...

Bottles are easy to recycle, but things get a little more confusing beyond that. The United States falls behind many of its peers when it comes to recycling. According to Yale University's ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...