SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A college baseball player from South Dakota whose prosthetic arm was stolen from his vehicle got it back Tuesday after it was found at a recycling plant.
Augustana’s Parker Hanson, a right-handed pitcher, was born without a left hand, but found a way to adapt at a young age so he could ORONO, Maine (AP) — A center at the University of Maine is launching a campaign to try to reduce the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills in the state...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Recycling programs introduced in the Las Vegas area in 2012 — including trash pickups that don’t require consumers to sort paper, plastics and metals — have not increased the percentage of materials going to reuse instead of the landfill...
PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — A huge fire engulfed a recycling plant overnight in northern New Jersey and raged into Saturday as firefighters battled flames, wind and frigid cold that turned the water from their hoses into treacherous ice...
BERLIN (AP) — A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said Thursday...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly detached from reality, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his baseless claim that he really won...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed a new head of the state's troubled recycling agency, who has pledged to overhaul its troubled bottle deposit system that has worsened during the pandemic...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will need to spend $650 million to clean up a heavily contaminated battery recycling plant in Southern California, but has less than half the money in hand and is behind its estimated schedule for removing dangerous lead dust affecting 100,000 nearby residents, the state auditor said Tuesday...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government said Wednesday it will pursue its nuclear fuel recycling program that would involve extracting plutonium from spent fuel, despite international concerns about the country's already huge plutonium stockpile and lack of prospects for effectively consuming it as nuclear fuel...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Firefighters battled a large fire at a recycling facility in St. Paul Tuesday...
What wo ld Ben ranklin think?
The o nding ather who la nched one of America 17;s first street-sweeping programs in Philadelphia in the late 175 s wo ld see and smell piles of fly-infested, rotting ho sehold waste, bottles and cans as the city that he called home str ggles to overcome a s rge in garbage ca sed by the COVID-19 pandemic...
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Recyclable items can once again be returned for cash in Michigan after an almost three-month suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic, which is great news for those who didn't stop collecting bottles, cans and plastics in the meantime...