"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 ...

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According to its latest calculations, up to 69 percent of paper available for recovery in the United States was recycled last year, including up to 76 percent of cardboard. According to the American ...

Most types of paper can be recycled in Centre County. It is easy to recycle paper so it does not end up in the landfill. We’ve come up with a list of our most frequently asked paper recycling ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Holiday gifting season ushers in a flurry of wrapping paper, present packages, and shipping boxes plus good news that Americans are recycling these materials more than ever, ...

The University at Buffalo requires all copy paper, janitorial paper, and other paper supplies to be composed of 100% post-consumer recycled content to the maximum extent possible. The University at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 'scrunch' test can help you figure out if your wrapping paper can be recycled. (Getty Images) (JIM WATSON via Getty Images) ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...