Stories Tagged as
Recycling
Think of your electronic waste as a mine of resources
Mar 20, 2024
E-waste is filled with old parts and precious metals that could be worth a lot to the right people.
Lego says making bricks from recycled bottles produces more carbon than new plastic
Sep 25, 2023
Another example of how hard it can be to recycle polymers.
How do waste plants pick through all our unsorted recyclables?
Aug 14, 2023
Single-stream recycling is convenient for consumers, but difficult for recycling companies. It requires a long and complicated process to make trash valuable.
How companies commodify your recycled waste
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Maria Hollenhorst
May 3, 2023
We tour a materials recovery facility in California, where the stuff consumers toss into recycling bins is sorted.
How one company is tackling the tricky — and expensive — task of recycling clothing
May 1, 2023
Diverting textiles from landfills is more difficult and more expensive than doing so for paper and glass. A group of formerly incarcerated workers is paving the way.
The origins of a glass recycling empire
by
Sarah Leeson
Aug 19, 2022
The sand Glass Half Full creates from processed bottles is repurposed for flood disaster relief and mitigating coastal erosion, among other things.
Will “deprinting” reduce the paper industry’s carbon footprint?
Aug 17, 2022
A new device will allow the same sheet of paper to be erased and reprinted 10 times, cutting waste and carbon emissions.
For public good, not for profit.
Here's how HP recycles its ink cartridges — and works on climate pledges
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Andie Corban
Aug 2, 2022
We visit an 80,000-square-foot facility in La Vergne, Tennessee, where the cartridges are taken apart and readied for their next life.
"Refilleries" give consumers a way to reuse plastic bottles and cut waste
by
Emily Jones
Jun 13, 2022
Businesses are reviving an old model to reduce single-use plastic in an effort to curb plastic pollution and fight climate change.
French company is recycling used face masks into useful objects
Jun 10, 2022
The company takes used and discarded symbols of the pandemic and turns them into items such as coat hangers and classroom rulers.