Though Christmas is behind us, you may still have some post-holiday cleanup to take care of. Everyone knows how to do dishes, break down boxes and sweep up. One thing that can cause some seasonal ...

Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover ...

On the concrete floor of Inland Empire Paper sat a 1,500-pound bale of waste paper ready to be recycled into new paper. The bale came from a modern single-stream recycling system that takes mixed-up ...

Q: I receive a number of packages wrapped in paper but the paper is covered with tape. I wonder if all the tape degrades the paper because of all the plastic content. Is it worth recycling them? — B.S ...

Every October is an exciting time for the industry as we celebrate National Forest Products Week and remind the world of the many benefits of recycling paper and paper-based packaging. At home, school ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...

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The holidays create a lot of waste, with all the wrapped presents, holiday-centric clothing and strands of lights that don't work anymore. The day after Christmas, you might find yourself wondering ...

A writer and editor for over two decades, Melanie Lasoff Levs has written for national outlets including The Washington Post and New York Daily News. Despite how digital we are, the amount of paper ...

It’s that time of year, again. Family meals, bands of merry carolers, decked-out Christmas trees, inflatable reindeer. And, don’t forget … the presents. But from stocking stuffers to gifts that barely ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...