Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may not be allowed.

It’s easy to get confused about what can and can’t be recycled. The No. 1 rule is to follow your local guidelines. Print them and post them by your recycling bins for quick reference. But ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

Recycling is a nightmare. We all want to reduce waste— 93% of Americans support recycling—but in the real world, many/most people don't really know what's recyclable and what isn't. So we toss every ...

You toss them in the blue bin with confidence. A pizza box here, some shredded paper there, maybe that coffee cup from this morning's rush. Feels responsible, right? Here's the thing though: a massive ...

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The UK has issued updated guidance explaining which plastic packaging can realistically be collected, sorted and reprocessed through existing recycling infrastructure.

Most clean, dry paper can go into your curbside bin. This includes things like newspapers, magazines, cardboard, and greeting cards. Are there exceptions? God, yes. For example, if a greeting card ...

Households in England will soon have to get their heads around changes in recycling, as new rules designed to simplify the system are being introduced. From 31 March 2026, people will have to separate ...

Up to 35 tons of paper, plastic, aluminum, tin and glass are dumped into Columbia's recycling center every day, and more than a third of it ends up in the landfill. Almost all of the material sent to ...

Plastic election signs like these can be recycled. Now that the votes are in, you may be wondering what to do with that yard sign you had for your preferred candidate or issue. They don't have to go ...