Opening presents together with loved ones is often a joyous part of the holiday season, but it can also create a lot of extra waste. With piles of shiny Christmas paper, bows, boxes, and gift bags, ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – After the excitement of Christmas morning, families are often left with a lot of wrapping paper and boxes. Local agencies are sending out the reminder that a lot of material can ...

Now that presents have been passed out, dinner eaten and time with family and friends spent, Christmas is officially over. But what are you going to do with all those cardboard boxes that came in from ...

The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority makes it easy to recycle paper. (Centre Daily Times, file) I like to check in with the recycling collection crew periodically to gather ideas for my ...

The holidays aren’t so happy in the recycling world. Workers see literally tons of stuff at this time of year that Santa would say is naughty. Top of that list? Strings of old holiday lights, the most ...

Recycling our materials saves resources, diverts tons of material from our landfills and helps create healthier communities and a cleaner planet. In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, here are some simple ...

The epiphany came when a certain coffee chain started replacing plastic straws with paper ones. Despite increasingly dire warnings about Texas-size islands of plastic in the world’s oceans, the sudden ...

ALTOONA -- The Intermunicipal Relations Committee Recycling Office hosted a holiday packaging collection this week. On Monday and Tuesday, two trucks sat in the Logan Valley Mall parking lot for ...