Corbin Olson Amid mounting regulatory pressure, evolving trade flows, and shifting brand commitment dynamics, the United ...

Nature often demonstrates extraordinary ingenuity in material design, where structure dictates function. Examples include the ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Keurig, maker of K-Cup single-use coffee pods, was recently fined for claiming the pods were recyclable. Dixie D. Vereen/For The Washington Post, via Getty Images Different U.S. states have different ...

The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

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As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

A debate over packaging recycling in the Washington state legislature is drawing major interest from industry, as lawmakers examine competing bills that would put fees on companies to support ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere. We eat it. We drink it. We breathe it. It is on the summit of Mount Everest and at the bottom of the oceans. Not only is it in human breast milk, but, according to one ...

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...