Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, and 7 are more difficult.

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues that reduce effectiveness.

Coffee pods have revolutionized the way millions of people brew their morning cup, but there's no doubting the environmental cost. Since 2020, Keurig's K-Cups have made significant strides by ...

Disposable cups made from paper, plastic and aluminum are now accepted in the Licking County Recycling public drop off recycling sites. Licking County Recycling recently entered into a new contract ...

SACRAMENTO - A CBS News investigation found that Starbucks, which is one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups, is struggling to get its plastic cups recycled. CBS News and CBS 13 wanted to ...

Coffee shops are everywhere and so are those take-out cups. They even make reusable cups that look like the throw-away kind. If yours is reusable, wash it and reuse it. But if it is cardboard, plastic ...

Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee shop, it will be recycled and turned into something new. However, a CBS News investigation ...

Scottish students earn 20 pence per recycled can through campus vending machines in pilot testing deposit return technology ...

MIAMI - America generates about 97 billion pounds of plastic waste every year – the most on the planet. In the U.S., one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups is Starbucks – 75% of its ...