This article originally appeared in the March 2018 issue of Resource Recycling magazine. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   Paper cups symbolize a number of elements of modern culture – our on-the-go mentality, our need for convenience, our love of caffeine – but they have not always evoked the notion of materials recovery. An estimated 643,000 tons of paper...

This article originally appeared in the December 2017 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   In October of this year, Washington, D.C. was the focus of a major campaign, but this one had little to do with national politics. The effort, called Zero Waste DC, was instead geared toward pushing forward residential recycling in the nation’s...