Miami-Dade County’s recycling program faces a messy challenge: sticker shock. After prices locked in from a 2008 processing contract expired in the spring, Miami-Dade saw recycling costs instantly ...

Residents should place trash and recycling at the curb as usual. All county disposal facilities, including Trash and Recycling Centers and Home Chemical Collection Centers, will also remain open ...

MIAMI - America generates about 97 billion pounds of plastic waste every year – the most on the planet. In the U.S., one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups is Starbucks – 75% of its ...

Miami-Dade County’s recycling program faces a messy challenge: sticker shock. After prices locked in from a 2008 processing contract expired in the spring, Miami-Dade saw recycling costs instantly ...

Homeowners in South Florida are accustomed to having recycling pickup every two weeks. In one Miami Gardens neighborhood, residents say it’s been more than two months since their recycling bins have ...

Miami-Dade County’s recycling program faces a messy challenge: sticker shock. After prices locked in from a 2008 processing contract expired in the spring, Miami-Dade saw recycling costs instantly ...

Miami-Dade County’s recycling rate has taken a nosedive in the past decade, plummeting from 46 percent in 2012 to 19 percent, according to the most recent data from the Florida Department of ...

Members of the student organization Eco Reps hand out reusable water bottles during an event on campus, in an effort to reduce the use of disposable plastic water bottles. The organization promotes ...

The Florida Recycling Summit at Marlins Park will be held on Friday, Aug. 14. The one-day event is being designed to “bring together top Florida businesses and associations to discuss recycling ...

Olivia Herron (center), Miami's director of sustainability, and student volunteers sorted and weighed waste from the Recycling with the RedHawks basketball game on Feb. 11 for the Campus Race to Zero ...