Students in the Poway Unified School District are beginning to see new recycling carts at their lunch courts. The labels on the carts ask students to sort their breakfast and lunch leftovers into the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland workers went around the city Wednesday, inspecting trash cans. These workers wanted to make sure Oaklanders were properly throwing away their garbage. This means ...

November 15th is "America Recycles Day". It's the only nationally recognized day that's dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling. But along the Monterey Peninsula, a group of graduate students ...

Composting in Ramsey and Washington counties is going high-tech. Residents of four cities there can now throw compost in the trash — and let artificial intelligence sort it out. Sort of. With the ...

Students in the school’s Ocean Guardians club helped classes find out how much food waste went into the landfill in the weeks leading up to the kickoff of a composting program.

The challenge last time was to find a word for accidentally putting “a recyclable item in the trash or vice versa” — or, by extension, putting one or the other in the compost bin. Avrum Mayman, of ...