recycling

California Live’s Angela Sun introduces us to Rewilder, a women-led, zero-waste company that uses high performance materials like banners & signs to create functional, up-cycled goods.

The largest solar panel recycling plant in North America has opened in Yuma, Arizona, just as the flow of used and spent solar panels sharply ramps up.

California Live’s Amber Pfister visits the South Coast Botanic Gardens to see their exhibit, “Washed Ashore,” beautiful sculptures made from junk found on the sand, a reminder for all of us to practice proper recycling.

Starting Saturday, polystyrene foam, widely known by the brand name “Styrofoam,” is officially banned in San Diego businesses.

The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve solution to the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the ocean, beaches and lands across the globe.

California will add wine and liquor bottles to its recycling rebate program under a law taking effect in July 2024. Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins said Wednesday that the state’s recycling program has needed fixing for decades. She notes that California generates more than 1 billion wine and liquor bottles every year. California’s recycling program includes beer cans and...

California is moving to add wine and distilled spirits containers to its struggling recycling program. But consumer advocates say the measure also includes too many giveaways to big corporations. Adding wine and spirits would bring nearly $18 million more annually to the state’s recycling fund starting in 2024, along with annual costs topping $6 million. It’s also giving beverage dealers...

Here’s a problem you’ve probably run into when you go to a fast-food restaurant and order your favorite meal: When you pull up through the drive-thru and ask for ketchup or other sauces, you’re given pounds and pounds of single-use packets that you’ll never finish. So a lot of us just…throw them away. Turns out those little packets are...

Your fast food burger and fries comes with a supersized environmental price tag. From the methane emissions created by the beef industry to the sauce packets that get dumped into landfills, there are a number of reasons why fast food is hard on the planet. Here are some ways you can make a difference — starting by changing what you order.

Plastics recycling is littered with misleading claims and waste. Here’s what that recycling symbol really means, its history and why more than 75% of your plastic waste ends up in landfills

After retiring from a career buying wine for a grocery store chain in Washington state, Chris Lueck realized there wasn’t a way to recycle glass wine bottles in rural parts of his state. Because of that, many of those bottles were ending up in landfills. Lueck created Ground2Ground, a company that pulverizes used bottles and turns them into sand that...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is proposing to temporarily double California’s typical nickel refunds for bottles and cans to boost recycling