Innovations and legislation continue to drive the burgeoning recycling industry. From microwave-based battery recycling to Colorado's EPR, Waste360 readers received insight on how the future of the industry is being shaped. Here are this week's...

A massive spike in the cost of recyclables per ton has been favorable for the industry. What is going on with the Global Plastics Treaty? Waste360 readers discovered all of this plus more in this week's top stories.

Working in the United States Department of Energy for 30 years, Ed McGinnis has seen firsthand the U.S. government's failed effort to build a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada...

With COVID-19 remaining a continual challenge for the world, the regular use of single-use masks is not going anywhere...

Gold is a fairly common material used in the production of electronic devices. Being a very integrated piece of these electronics, it can oftentimes be difficult to extract the gold from the other materials within the device.  ...

On Friday, August 12th, the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, announced a catastrophic situation underway at the country's Oder River. The river, with Poland on one side and Germany on the other, has been the subject of what appears to...

A research lab in Ireland monitoring toxins in shellfish has managed to reduce their non-chemical waste by 95 percent...

Not everything can be easily picked up in a recycling bin and recycled...

One man who lives next to the former Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island has filed a lawsuit alleging his health was affected after this site was reopened...

With ambitious climate pledges, HP is tackling its sustainability goals tenfold...