Recycling can be simple, but it's also very easy to make mistakes while you're at it. One common mistake that people make when recycling is tossing takeout containers into the recycling bin.

Spokane residents tossed 25% more tonnage into their recycling bins within two months of moving to single-stream, climbing another 28% over the next three years. But the stream it generates is ...

Brits have been warned against making recycling bin mistakes that could result in fines of £400. Councils are increasing enforcement on "recycling contamination", where one wrong item ...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Community recycling bins in Liberty Township will be closed at the end of April due to consistent misuse, officials announced. In response, the township is ...

Thousands of households across Hampton Roads will have their recycling bins inspected over the next two months as part of an effort to educate the public about what they can, and can’t ...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — When waste that can’t be recycled ends up in a recycling bin, the contents of the entire bin may get tossed in a landfill. The rejected waste ends up costing taxpayers ...

A man is leaving jugs of urine in recycling bins — which is considered a biohazard substance Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and ...

Urine for a real whodunit. An Oregon neighborhood has been soaked with intrigue for months since a mysterious man started depositing jugs of pee in their recycling bins under the cover of darkness ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – A man living in a Portland, Oregon neighborhood is wondering who is putting gallons of urine in his recycling bin and why. Alex Van Duyn said the problem started in ...

Six bottles of urine in his recycling bin. The garbage hauler wouldn't take it. It's a biohazard. Eventually, Van Duyn pulled his garbage bins, hoping that the urine dropper would go away.

The Recycle Bin has been a staple of Windows since its debut in Windows 95. Apart from the regular visible overhauls of the Recycle Bin icon, the feature has remained largely unchanged throughout ...

Only 5% to 6% of plastic used in the United States gets recycled, according to Judith Enck, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator who is an environmental activist ...