There are two types of recycled fiber – composed of either post-consumer reclaimed material or pre-consumer reclaimed material – that can be used to make recycled paper. The two are fundamentally ...

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"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use." So wrote John Steinbeck in his 1962 novel, Travels With Charley. And for America, at least, it holds too true: In the ...

Since plastic packaging accounts for a large fraction of plastic waste, the demand for environmentally friendly packaging options is increasing. One material that is becoming more and more popular as ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Did you know that you can’t recycle many kinds of wrapping paper or Christmas decorations? But don’t worry, there’s plenty of options -- and it’s easy to see which ...

The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority makes it easy to recycle paper. Centre Daily Times, file Most types of paper can be recycled in Centre County, and it is easy to recycle paper so it ...

Question: "I am interested in what happens to my recycling materials after I drop them off at the transfer station. Where do they go? How do they (aluminum, steel, and plastic) get separated? Why did ...