Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

Sister Joanne Poehlman has been recycling for years but wondered if it's okay to throw number 5 plastics into her bin. We humans leave a lot of waste in our wake. One way to reduce it is to recycle.

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...