If your recycling bins are full every week, you know you’re doing your part to help the environment. Your community may have a list of what it does and doesn’t accept on recycling day, but sometimes ...
Carla Young, a Curious Texas reader, asked: "What's the proper way to recycle different everyday items? Do I need to tear the ...
Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may not be allowed.
Recycling properly takes a bit of precision. Here are seven takeout containers that should stay out of the blue bin.
Earth Day is coming up on April 22, and as you probably learned in elementary school, one way to care for the Earth is to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." However, recycling isn't always simple. There are ...
For years, sorting bottles from cardboard, scrubbing out jars, and dragging the blue bin to the curb felt like the right thing to do. It felt like participation. But at some point, the nagging feeling ...
The world is drowning in plastic. Producers are peddling a “solution” that is more like an illusion. Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag? But the plastics industry is working to ...
Sometimes, an item just feels like it should be thrown in the recycling bin. But you may not be guessing right. And that can cause big problems for local recycling programs. If an item is not on the ...
If you're really into recycling, you likely already know that not everything actually gets recycled, or can be recycled. Not to mention, there are many items that recycling services specifically don't ...