First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

Moving boxes are recyclable, especially those made of cardboard. Here's the right way to recycle these materials—plus, eco-friendly ways to reuse them.

Fortunately, the recycling rate for paper and paper products in the U.S. is high: more than 60 percent was recycled in 2009, according to the solid waste report. However, there is always room for ...

While most carboard is easily ready to be recycled, other items such as wrapping paper, bows and ribbons are not.

Explore how recycling can be transformed with our video, "Revolutionizing Recycling: 13 Spectacular DIY Cardboard Projects ...

Wrapping paper Yes, you can recycle Christmas wrapping paper – unless it's metallic, has glitter or has velvety flocking on it.

Cardboard typically makes up a sizable share of the items that reach any given recycling center. At Recology’s 200,000 square-foot recycling facility in San Francisco, for example, paper and ...

Used newspapers and magazines are collected from paper banks and kerbside recycling schemes and transported to the paper mill.

You may have read that there’s a recycling crisis in the U.S. After years of accepting our used plastic and cardboard, China now won’t take it, which often means there is no place for it to go ...

Nick and Nancy are spearheading a campaign to increase paper recycling in their town to 100 percent. If X people recycle Y tons of paper per month, and total paper demand in town is Z tons, then ...

But at city or town shelters like LifeLine, creative volunteers make easy — potentially life-saving — enrichment toys by ...