Recycling remains the easiest way for most of us to have a significant daily impact on the environment. Reduced energy use from recycling can have substantial impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and protects our natural resources. Yet, sadly, our national recycling rates show that there's much more

These days, everyone's recycling, right? You would think so. It is, after all, the era of "green." Undoubtedly people are reporting that they're doing more recycling lately, and rising recovery rates attest to that. But these increases are slow. Access to convenient recycling isn't universal, and even in areas that do have robust recycling options, a lot of valuable materials are still winding ...