Do recycle: Most wrapping paper and cardboard Recycling plants can process most gift wrap along with other paper products, producing hefty recycled bales.

While Christmas is a lot of fun, the holiday also leaves you with a lot of trash. The wrapping paper, boxes and bags should be recycled when possible and thrown away when they cannot be reused ...

Wrapping paper, gift bags, packaging and cards can pile up quickly during the holiday season, so we asked Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) recycling specialist Theresa Evans to ...

Each day we bring you videos from around the Internet to show you how they make stuff. There are three kinds of papers that can be used to recycle paper, they are mill broke, pre-consumer waste ...

Paper coffee cups fall into that qualified recycling area; they can be recycled in some places, but not all. The best thing you can do is check with your local municipality.

When recycled materials enter Republic Services, they go through presort where an employee like Justin “JJ” Gillick puts large pieces that should have gone to the landfill into the residual pile.

Do recycling companies really recycle? Where does it all go and how do we know it gets done? - Richard, Everett Yes, they do recycle all that stuff. David Wade did a story about just that ...

We recently got new recycling bins at the Lifehacker office, and suddenly realized no one knew all the rules about recycling. Can you recycle plastic bags? Do you have to scrub out your containers?

China has set strict new limits on the contamination it allows in the mixed paper bales American trash companies ship there for recycling.

Recycling can be simply throwing away things you don’t need in the blue bin. But sometimes, it feels less simple. How do you know what’s recyclable? And do you have to clean recyclables ...