Recycle

Idaho Matters checks in with the City of Boise about its successful — and growing — compost program.

With many of us staying home and ordering items online, there’s more recycling being done in the Treasure Valley this year. And a new report shows the…

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

Boise and Meridian residents have been filling special orange bags with hard-to-recycle plastics since 2018. Initially, the ‘Hefty EnergyBags’ were…

As most of us have been spending more time at home, the amount of waste we’ve been taking to the curb has increased, too. Trucks picking up our trash,…

Boise city officials told residents they could recycle certain plastics for repurposing as diesel fuel as part of the EnergyBag program. But it turns out…

Waste is just another part of the holidays. From Christmas trees to wrapping paper and food containers, here are some tips for reducing and correctly…

Tens of millions of tons of plastic is tossed into landfills across the U.S. every year – some because it can’t be recycled and others that were just…

If you live in Boise and are running out of orange recycle bags, the city is changing the way you can get them. Boise rolled out the orange bag program in…

It’s been almost a year since Boise began sending hard-to-recycle plastics to a facility in Salt Lake. The plastics that can go in the orange bags are…