Some items recycle easily: Milk jugs, plastic clamshell containers (depending on where you live), clean aluminum foil, and plastic water bottles with the caps on. Common recycling mistakes: Plastic ...

We’ve all seen the little triangle of arrows on the bottoms of plastic bottles and other containers, intended to guide consumers to proper plastic recycling. But if you also have noticed the ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

The first thing to know is what’s accepted in your yellow-lidded kerbside bin depends on where you live and what your local ...

Find out which things should stay out of the recycling bin by learning how to identify an item's recyclability based on its identification number. Getty Images / Os Tartarouchos No matter how hard we ...

Wondering what to recycle and what not to recycle in your curbside bins? This recycling guide can help.

When the children at Cave Spring Elementary School finish their lunches, they raise their hands and ask if they may wash out their plastic milk bottles. After the answer -- an inevitable "yes" -- they ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...