On Tuesday morning, recycling inspectors quickly checked recycling bins placed on the curb for any unapproved items. If the ...

Roughly 29,000 tons of rejected recycling ended up in Rhode Island's landfill last year, enough to fill 895 football fields.

The main processing area at Waste Pro is a noisy, cavernous space filled with the continuous hum and motion of machinery, a ...

In this Q&A, we explore this technology and its ability to manage plastics that are challenging to recycle mechanically, ...

As cities have grown and expanded, the first unintended consequence raised is generally infrastructure strain - roads (and ...

Mayor Brett P. Smiley and Councilman Jim Taylor announced a proposal to invest in Providence’s waste management ...

This aims to tackle issues within the city's waste collection system, including high recycling contamination, costs associated with rejected recycling, the need of frequent repairs and more ...

New Zealand sends most of its recycling to places like Indonesia and Malaysia – where communities are living with the ...

The city’s recycling rates rank among the worst in the state, and Mayor Smiley has been promising new trash and recycling ...

Waste polyvinyl chloride can be upcycled into valuable chemical feedstocks in a process that combines pyrolysis with ...

There have been more than 120 complaints about the bid to build a wood, composting and green waste processing and recycling ...