You might not want to crush that aluminum can you're recycling. Here's a beginner's guide to recycling paper, plastic, glass, aluminum and more.

You can't recycle all types of plastic -- some belong in the trash and others need to be composted.

As we spend more time at home and generate more trash, now could be the perfect time to teach kids the fundamentals of recycling. But are adults even throwing away the right things? Republic ...

Very little of plastic we recycle is actually removed from the waste stream.

Precious Plastic is giving instructions on how to build a series of simple machines that will let makers turn plastic trash into new material.

Working with ABC News and nine ABC stations we assembled bundles of recyclable plastic bags, each containing a tracking device to see if those bags are being recycled at all.

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

With 30 million tons of plastic in our landfills, it’s worth spending a bit of time to brainstorm ways to get creative with plastic.

ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith visits a University of Houston lab for a rare look at one way plastic could be recycled.