Tom Szaky is the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company that makes consumer products from waste. He has been a guest contributor for Treehugger since 2006. It’s not a secret that most plastics take ...

Plastics are just a small fraction of the recyclables collected and processed by Waste Management Inc., and film is just a small fraction of those plastics. But plastics, including film, have value, ...

Increasing waste generation and challenges in recycling markets limit the sector’s ability to earn a higher grade.

Brent Bell, president of Waste Management Recycle America at Houston-based Waste Management, shares recycling education success stories on America Recycles Day, Nov. 15. Waste Management interns ...

Take a look inside your garbage can. How much garbage does your family throw away each day? Each week? Where does all of that trash go? It's tempting to think that the trash we throw away actually ...