If you try to recycle a plastic bottle, piece of cardboard or metal can at curbside in Oregon, there's about a one-in-five chance it'll end up as garbage in a landfill. That's the discouraging word ...

My column this morning in The Oregonian's Living section is about Portland's as-we-speak conversion from recycling bins to larger, more accommodating roll carts. (It's exciting stuff, and somebody's ...

Grand Rapids, Mich. — Cascade Engineering Inc.'s Cascade Cart Solutions business is making progress on using more post-consumer curbside material and other scrap in its high density polyethylene ...