Living a more sustainable life can take many forms, from shopping locally and reducing single-use plastics to using a reusable water bottle or composting. However, one area you might not consider when ...

What do you do with the contents of your paper shredder’s refuse bin? Conventional wisdom would say recycle it: It’s paper, ...

Pablo Päster is an energy and sustainability management consultant who wrote a weekly advice column for Treehugger from 2009-2012. Joel Penner/CC BY-NC 2.0 Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: ...

According to a report from the Northeast Recycling Council, the 25 announced recycled mill capacity expansions since 2017 have the potential to use more than 8 million tons of OCC and mixed paper.

Most every product you buy comes in some kind of packaging. And even though paper is recyclable, it’s not all created equal: Some packaging is much easier to recycle than others. The American Forest & ...

Which would you rather flush: a tree or an old office memo? That’s the difference between typical toilet paper, made from virgin timber, and recycled toilet paper, usually made from discarded office ...

A writer and editor for over two decades, Melanie Lasoff Levs has written for national outlets including The Washington Post and New York Daily News. Despite how digital we are, the amount of paper ...

For more than 10 years, steps have been taken in North America to move post- consumer paper cups into residential and commercial recycling streams. The pace of change has picked up significantly in ...

Researchers in western Japan are using microbes to convert leftovers from the prefecture’s famous noodle into strong, ...

Tri-State Resource Recovery is hosting an extra recycling drop-off event on June 13 for local residents.

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 ...

Here is a go-to guide for how to dispose of acceptable recycled materials, hard-to-recycle materials and unacceptable materials that can only go to the landfill. Thin plastic lids that come on trays ...