Source Separation

Binghamton, N.Y., residents who have single-use plastic bags in their bins will get marked with a green recycling violation warning sticker.

Quebec City’s sorting center is one of five that participates in Éco Entreprises, a program aimed at updating facilities to fully recycle glass.

A look at how Westchester County, N.Y., and two other jurisdictions are enforcing stringent recycling measures.

The switch aims to help increase recycling in Hoboken, reduce the city’s share of landfill waste and could save taxpayers in yearly recycling costs.

Several festivals across the country have committed to making waste diversion part of their events.

Because it’s easy to be anonymous in high-rise buildings, it’s hard to tell who’s not following the rules when it comes to recycling.

Shanghai is a testing ground for a new trash separation policy that the Chinese government eventually hopes to roll out across the rest of the country.

The containers—five headed back to Hong Kong and two to France—housed a combination of trash, plastic waste and hazardous materials.

The city has fined residents more than $400,000 and issued more than 4,400 citations to homeowners breaking trash collection rules.

Due to the lack of coordinated policy, workers must sort through tonnes of trash to separate what could be recycled and sold.