Recycling

“We’re looking at what options are available to us, but for the time being, we don’t plan on opening in the near future until we are able to find an alternative solution,” Mayor Gina Leichty told the city council Monday.

The city of Goshen has indefinitely closed its only public recycling drop-off site after repeated illegal dumping and rising cleanup costs.

As researchers learn more about the hazards of plastics and microplastics in the Great Lakes, it's becoming clear Canada and the U.S. need to cooperate in stopping the pollution.

The bill’s author has said it could help Indiana to reach its goal of recycling half its waste. But a University of Pittsburgh professor questions whether some of these chemical processes should be considered recycling at all.

Things like toothpaste tubes often can’t be recycled because they’re made up of multiple kinds of plastic and certain additives. Companies like Brightmark in northeast Indiana use heat and chemical processes to break down plastics into materials that can be used again.

An environmental group wants the new legislature to fix some things about Michigan's beverage container deposit law.

The city of Goshen announced Monday that it plans to create a citywide curbside recycling program this August.

A new report from the University of Michigan says that a majority of Michigan's local leaders say recycling is important to their community members.

Just over 19% of Michigan's solid waste is either recycled or composted, according to a recent analysis from the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. That's an improvement from the pre-2019 rate of 14.25%.