One category of recyclables may even lose its recycling symbol altogether.

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, ...

A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate different state recycling requirements and labeling by creating a single, national ...

Workers remove debris from the property of a home lost to the Palisades fire on Feb. 19. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) California environmental regulators are considering rolling back the ...

Many California homeowners have to deal with sorting their garbage into three containers: one for trash, one for recyclables and another for organic waste. If you accidentally put the wrong item in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Starting January, there's no more tossing food scraps like banana peels or veggies in the trash. Californians will instead be required to put excess food in waste bins. Cities and ...

Deal or no deal? Most likely, deal. The California environmentalists who back a November ballot measure to reduce single-use plastics appear headed to withdrawing it just ahead of the Thursday ...

SB 343 is slated to take effect in October. Carton advocates and environmental groups disagree over future markets and labeling for the material.

Sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in recent years with climate change and global warming rates on the rise. As such, different companies have taken different approaches to ...

Officials admitted that shutting down Chiquita won’t affect a rare chemical reaction responsible for a strong odor, since “the reaction was taking place about 2,000 feet from the active parts of the ...

"We found treasure in garbage bags and turned that into an opportunity for thousands.” ...