Only about a third of the glass used in the U.S. gets recycled. That’s much lower than Europe, where some countries have recycling rates above 90%. So what gives? And what can we do about it?

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

A person wearing a yellow tee shirt and tan cardigan sorts items for recycling. - pikselstock/Shutterstock Recycling as much waste as possible is a no-brainer when it ...

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 ...

Bottles pass through the hot end of the recycling line at Ohio-based Owens-Illinois — one of the companies that buys cullet from CAP Glass, transforming it into food and beverage containers. When you ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — A local company is giving glass recyclables a new life through crafting unique and one-of-a-kind countertops. As a waste hauler, Fisher Recycling takes glass collected ...