Recycling used to come with a lot of rules and restrictions making it somewhat inconvenient, although still worthwhile. Along with other man...

With the introduction of an enormous amount of handheld electronic devices, people are using more and more household batteries than ever bef...

When we generally think of being done with a book, we think of giving it to a friend or dropping it off at a donation site. Sometimes, how...

Light bulbs are a tricky item to categorize when discussing recyclables.  What type of material is a light bulb, anyway? At the base, they...

Yard waste, including weeds, grass clippings, twigs and small branches are recyclable in a manor of speaking. These materials are actually c...

Single Stream recycling is a relatively new term by most standards. It didn't exist as even a concept just a decade or so ago. Single ...

Experts have determined that upwards of 76 percent of paper mills used some recovered paper in 2011, so the paper you throw into the bin i...