The first step is to practice the 6 Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Repurpose, Recycle. A key component of RIT’s recycling efforts is our mixed recycling program. Mixed recycling means that that ...

What if the container is greasy? Recycling can be complicated, and the rules outlining how to do it vary from city to city, which might be one reason why only about 32 percent of our trash gets ...

The legislation applies to mixed plastics “unless the mixture includes only certain plastics destined for separate recycling and satisfies other ... Gavin Newsom to sign the bill, which he had not yet ...

Corporate giant Waste Management said it will change its plans and allow mixed-paper recycling in Broward County after all. The stunning about-face came late Friday afternoon to the surprise of ...

Under the new program, residents need to sign up to have recycling collected by city crews. Days before the deadline, only 7,634 trash customers have signed up. Councilman Anthony Brancatelli says ...

Soda bottles, sour cream containers and disposable cutlery—these plastics (and many others) typically arrive at recycling plants mixed together ... everybody thought the only thing you could ...

Jacob Greenberg, a commissioner in Blaine County, Idaho, told me that the county’s mixed-paper recycling was about 90 percent clean. But its paper broker said the mixed paper needed to be 99 ...

That stopped when Chinese officials determined that too much trash was mixed in with recyclable ... and the problems have only deepened. With fewer buyers, recycling companies are recouping ...