Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recycling standards vary across the US, with municipalities often setting their own unique rules. Recycling the wrong material or ...

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Repair cafes, fixit clinics, restart parties – while there’s no standardized term, there’s probably a pop-up volunteer event ...

When items travel along a conveyor belt at a sorting facility, they move past a fast-spinning magnetic rotor at the end. This ...

When the Meals on Wheels program in Syracuse stopped using Styrofoam trays, it donated hundreds of unused trays to Utica Creative Reuse. Second graders at Bradley Elementary School in New Hartford ...

Earth Day is today, and while it may sound like just another holiday, it’s so much more. Established in 1970, Earth Day is a time to celebrate our glorious planet and its belove ...

Creating waste goes hand in hand with modern society. But how we dispose of it has changed significantly in recent decades. Disposal sites have largely moved from small, unregulated landfills where ...

Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub is celebrating five years, and they have diverted tons of trash from our landfills.