For years California has courted a reputation as an eco-friendly, green-minded leader, but the state now finds its most basic program of recycling beverage bottles and cans mired in debt and ...

California would add wine and distilled spirits containers to its struggling recycling program, while giving beverage dealers another option to collect empty bottles and cans, under a measure ...

Broken remains of earthquake-damaged glass wine bottles sit in a bin in Napa in August 2014. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press) It may be Dry January for some, but a newly expanded recycling program ...

A California family that earned millions of dollars just by recycling cans and bottles has now been accused of multiple felonies that could lead to years behind bars. In a felony complaint filed this ...

12:55 p.m. Aug. 30, 2024: The headline on a previous version of this article said California would be opening 250 new types of recycling centers. The grant money will fund the opening of more than 250 ...

LOS ANGELES, California, January 5, 2024 (ENS) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced the arrest of the head of a large-scale, multistate recycling fraud ring who stole $4.3 million ...

The project for the Los Angeles area could end up costing up to $8 billion. The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it would invest $99 million in taxpayer funds to support the creation of the ...

As September drew to a close, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a number recycling-related bills into law and vetoed another that would have created an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program ...

Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it's widely accepted next year's ...

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The family, based in Southern California, is accused of recycling materials purchased in Arizona. More than $1 million worth of "illegally imported beverage containers" was found, a statement says. A ...