PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what sparked a second-alarm fire at a recycling center in Phoenix.

There were no reported injuries from Sunday morning’s...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — One South Carolina county is checking some home recycling bins to make sure nothing that can't be recycled easily is inside.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man who was serving time in jail has filed a lawsuit against Baltimore County, saying it violated federal and state labor laws by not paying him minimum wage and overtime for...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Chittenden Solid Waste District has agreed to pay more than $400,000 for disposing of recyclable processed glass on its Williston property, the Vermont attorney general...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An annual Christmas tree recycling event in West Virginia has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The event uses hundreds of Christmas trees to be...

GIBSONIA, Pa. (AP) — Scores of firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a metal fabricating and recycling plant in western Pennsylvania over the weekend.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says volunteers will remove unused crab traps from state waters early next year.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware officials are encouraging residents to recycle Christmas trees at yard waste facilities around the state.

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Part of a cargo ship that became stranded off the Georgia coast is headed to a recycling facility in Louisiana.

A barge hauling the gigantic bow section of the Golden...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against multiple companies connected to a now-closed battery recycling plant years after California regulators pledged to recover cleanup costs from...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado is wasting more and recycling less.

From 2018 to 2019, the state’s recycling rate dropped to 15.9 percent from 17.2 percent, far below the national average of 35...

BOSTON (AP) — Communities across Massachusetts are sharing $3.2 million in grant funding that will help them maximize their recycling, composting and waste reduction programs.

GARY, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finished cleaning up contamination in northwest Indiana near Gary's airport that stemmed from a 1977 fire at a former hazardous waste...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Development of a $10.5 million facility on Hawaii island to make compost using green waste and food waste has been postponed because of a shortage of the key...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Curbside collection of recyclable materials resumes next month in one Alabama city.

Turscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said the city's Environmental Services Department is...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Flat-pack furnishings retailer Ikea said Tuesday that it will offer to buy back thousands of pieces of used Ikea furniture in 27 countries, for resale, recycling or donation to...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is facing a growing waste problem and is at risk of missing its plastic recycling targets for 2025 and 2030 as more stringent export rules will be implemented...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An employee of a recycling company has died after being struck by a vehicle in Virginia.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the incident occurred Thursday in...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A metal recycler has been fined nearly $3 million for improperly disposing of hazardous waste on its site, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said on...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A large fire in the yard of an Albuquerque recycling plant on Tuesday has been contained with no reported injuries, authorities said.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Recycling programs on Mississippi's Gulf Coast are facing disruptions after Hurricane Sally damaged a Florida recycling center.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese police said they will investigate a factory that was found recycling about 320,000 used condoms for resale, local media reported Thursday.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The largest utility in Wyoming is considering more sustainable solutions for old wind turbine blades, instead of tossing them into a landfill.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city will end its current recycling program Oct. 1.

The Starkville Board of Aldermen voted this week to suspend recycling indefinitely because its...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man whose body was found among recycling materials at a landfill building apparently was inside a dumpster when its contents were put into the back of a recycling...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s Department of Public Works announced Thursday that it is suspending recycling pickup throughout the city through at least Nov. 1 to focus on its trash routes, citing...

HUDSON, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters have contained a fire at a large tire recycling facility in northern Colorado to 7.5 acres (3 hectares) and hope to have the fire mostly extinguished Thursday....

A day after rejecting a proposal to spend approximately $330 million to upgrade an aging trash incinerator in Hartford that handles about one-third of Connecticut's garbage, the leader of the...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's trash and recycling collection services, which had been impacted by a COVID-19 outbreak among sanitation workers, will resume on Monday, the city said.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Dozens of projects across Kentucky are in line to receive more than $4.7 million in grants to expand recycling, reduce the amount of solid waste taken to landfills and...

HONOLULU (AP) — A state Senate bill that would require a buffer zone around waste disposal facilities could impact the demolition and clearance of Aloha Stadium.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Companies that contaminated soil and water at a former recycling center in a Los Angeles suburb have agreed to pay $6.5 million to help clean up the Superfund site, the U.S....

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Waste management officials have started to cleanup trash dumped along rural roads in Kitsap County after receiving several complaints, county officials said.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky counties may be able to cover costs of recycling or disposing of waste tires with $4,000 state grants.

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Curbside recycling will soon end in Tybee Island in Georgia.

As of April 1, the city's contractor will end that pick-up method there, The Savannah Morning News...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A man was found dead in the driver's seat of a tractor at a North Carolina recycling site, but foul play is not suspected, police said.

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Zoning officials in eastern Indiana have postponed a decision on a plastic recycling company's planned expansion to investigate complaints that the company is a magnet for...

MADISON, Ill. (AP) — A fire swept through a recycling center and two adjacent businesses in southwestern Illinois early Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of homes in a three-block area, officials...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Topeka say foul play is not suspected after a man was found dead among recycling materials at a landfill.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that the body of...

BECKER, Minn. (AP) — A fire spotted earlier this weeks at a metal recycling factory in Becker has been extinguished, officials said Saturday.