recycling

In 2017, Ann Jarosiewicz and Liz Prete left their jobs as developers and started WasteNot, a building materials recycling company on Cape Cod. Since then, they’ve diverted over an acre of hardwood flooring, roughly 570 kitchen cabinets, and 500 windows from landfills.

In just 90 minutes, this small team of swimmers can remove hundreds of pieces of trash. Again and again, they surface with fistfuls of beer cans, golf balls, fishing lures, and dog toys.

Oyster-shell recycling expands to four Cape Cod towns.

"I'm not a fan of bans," says Cape Cod Anti-Litter Coalition president Meg Morris, whose nonprofit reports a spike in litter since last year. "But when people won't manage their own behavior, sometimes that's the direction that you have to take."

If you’re breaking out your Christmas lights early this year, you may find that some have lost their twinkle. That’s why Barnstable County is launching…

At the Bourne Integrated Solid Waste Management Facility, everything has its own smell. “You get the gas smell, old trash smell, new trash smell,…

Ever take a close look inside your fridge? That might be a scary prospect. But, what’s in there? A half-empty pickle jar? A few bottles of beer? Until…

Changes in overseas markets have impacted what gets recycled and how. But when you put a drink can or a metal food container into your blue bin here on…

Recycling: we’ve all been told it’s the right thing to do. But the rules are often confusing, which might explain why Americans think we’re recycling 75…