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Is recycling worth it? Not according to the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. “Recycling is pointless,” Musk wrote in mid-December to 207.8 million followers on the social media platform he owns. The ...

Every little bit helps. But doing it wrong can actually make matters worse. Credit...Naomi Anderson-Subryan Supported by By Winston Choi-Schagrin Recycling can have big environmental benefits. For one ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

I used to be that person who obsessively rinsed out jars and separated every tiny piece of paper from plastic. You know the ...

All recycling goes to one place in the Treasure Coast. Recyclables are sold on a worldwide waste market to be turned into new goods. Florida is far from its goal of recycling 75% of its waste. New ...