Fair warning: if you invite me to dinner at your house and I spy a black plastic spatula in the utensil canister on your ...

“So he gave me the idea ... in Abt’s recycling center in Glenview on Oct. 29, 2024. (Karie Angell Luc/Pioneer Press) “And hardly anyone can say that and I wish every other business could see how we do ...

Don't waste all that effort you put into sorting your recyclables by discarding them incorrectly. Follow these steps instead.

Coordinated by the Chicago-based water innovation hub Current, in partnership with Argonne and the University of Chicago, Great Lakes ReNEW will develop and deploy improved technologies for recovering ...

MANILA—Long one of the world’s top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring big companies to pay for waste solutions will help clean up its act. Last ...

It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.

Diwali, a festival of joy and light, often leaves behind a trail of waste that can harm the environment. From firecracker remains to used decorations and food scraps, Diwali waste adds to pollution ...

The environmental footprint of this holiday is frightening – here are ways to celebrate responsibly and still have fun ...

As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern Thai island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their ...

Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and ...

Miller said recycling is not an "adequate solution to the plastic pollution crisis." This whale case is only one example animals – in our local area – that have negatively impacted by plastic.