As spring cleaning season arrives, many people find themselves sifting through their homes, wondering how to responsibly dispose of various items. From electronics to hazardous materials, recycling ...

Steel and aluminum cans are recyclable, but other metal items are not. Pots, pans, baking sheets, silverware, and bicycle or ...

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(NEW YORK) — Many of us crush LaCroix cans, break down cardboard boxes and try really hard to get all that peanut butter out of the jar to put it in the recycling bin instead of the trash — a small ...

We have all done it: a greasy pizza box, a disposable coffee cup, the odd plastic bag. Sometimes, we want things to be recyclable, so we put them in the recycling bin. Waste managers often call this ...

Researcher for the Clothing Sustainability Research Group and Lecturer Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Trent University Have you ever paused to ponder the fate of those bags of old clothes you ...

I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be ...

This story was updated to add information under the headings of toys, appliances and hazardous materials. As spring cleaning ...

According to experts, our recycling system, as it currently stands, is broken. Many of China's recycling mills and farms are being forced to stop collecting recyclable scrap materials due to the ...