Online shopping creates millions of tons of packaging waste each year. During the two-day Amazon Prime event that took place in October, America ordered an estimated 260 million items. The shipping ...

The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

In 1970, Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, when a Chicago container company held a design contest to raise awareness about the environment.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The triangular loop of arrows that has been the universal symbol of recycling for the ...

M etal Packaging Europe (MPE), the Brussels-based umbrella organization representing producers and suppliers of rigid metal packaging across Europe, has introduced a new recycling logo that the ...

How confident are you that you always put the right rubbish in the right bin? Getting it wrong means that waste that could potentially be recycled isn't, or that recycling gets contaminated with ...

KitKat has replaced its logo after discovering half of Australian consumers do not know how to recycle properly. The confectionery giant has changed the logo on its wrappers to KitKat chocolate wafers ...