Household waste increases by 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years. Rules vary by municipality on what you can recycle and what needs to go into the trash.

After 20 years of service, an NPR reporter's beloved minivan is on the fritz. But what is its best and highest calling now: Pass it on to another family or recycle it into parts?

Very little of the plastic that consumers recycle actually ends up back in circulation. A researcher at Georgia Tech is hoping a new method of construction will give recycled plastic a second life.

A year after its proposal, a California-based plastic-waste solution company still is pushing to build what it calls the Thomaston Circularity Center.

California’s lawsuit alleges that ExxonMobil has known for decades that recycling would not effectively stem the flow of plastic waste.

Savannah’s recycling efforts have taken a step backward with the suspension of a popular glass recycling program. For about 15 months, residents have been bringing glass bottles and jars to drop-off sites around the city. That program abruptly shut down last week.

In 2023, the venue recycled nearly 1 million pounds of materials including aluminum, plastics, cardboard, glass and more. 

Christmas has come and gone but your tree is probably still up. Here are some tips to dispose of your tree or give it new life.

As the Christmas season winds down, affiliates of the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation are providing ways to recycle your live Christmas tree. The statewide group has about 200 sites around the state set aside for what they call "treecycling."

For decades, the lemon-lime drink has come in green bottles — but green plastic isn't as easily recycled as clear plastic, the company says. Fresca, Seagram's and Mello Yello will all follow suit.

More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced in the U.S. each year, with 14 million of them ending up in the ocean, according to the Department of Interior.

New York is the latest, and largest, state to consider charging product-makers to dispose of their packaging. But lawmakers are clashing over how much to involve industry in creating a new system.

In late December, Brightmark admitted to the authority it failed to meet the deadline to prove its facility in another state was able to deliver the recycled end-product to another user, which was a condition of the sale.

Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.

The first step in cutting back on plastic is understanding what you're using and how much of it. Do an audit of the plastics in your home to get a sense of how much plastic you use.