Watkyn says that it’s fairly easy to tell if wrapping paper is recyclable. "Try the festive scrunch test: scrunch the paper ...

Are you recycling your cardboard boxes? If you're like me, you always have a ton of boxes from receiving weekly meal kits or having lazy pizza nights. You might toss them into a recycling bin and ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...

Paper-based Christmas cards and gift tags can usually go in your home recycling. If they have any stuck-on extras, such as ribbons, then these will need to be removed. Glittery cards are not ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

As the new year approaches, households are urged to think carefully about how they handle their Christmas leftovers.

The day after Christmas is usually the busiest day of the year for recycling facilities, as people rush to get rid of trash ...

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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Unwrapping presents on Christmas is all part of the fun of the day, but it can be hard to decide whether you should recycle or throw away all that used gift wrap. Luckily, ...