Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

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 ...

Full-size cardboard boxes take up a lot of space and, as a result, other things that could get recycled often end up in the trash when the recycling bin is too full.

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

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 ...

The national recycling campaign also notes that "some wrapping paper is very thin and contains few good quality fibres for recycling," along with some being dyed and laminated.

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 ...

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 ...