TerraCycle is a free recycling hack for K-cups, toothpaste tubes, and all your hard-to-recycle stuff: How it works

TerraCycle takes the items that local recycling centers cannot recycle, from razors to food wrappers to Swiffer pads. Here's ...
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Let's Settle This: Crushing Cans Is Bad for Recycling, and We Can Prove It

Generally, you don't need to remove paper labels from metal or aluminum cans before you chuck them in the recycling bin. When ...
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Not Sure Which Plastics You Can Recycle? Here's What You Need to Know

We all know that recycling is good for the planet. But sometimes, the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle isn't obvious. When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing ...
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6 Kitchen Items You're Probably Recycling Wrong—and What to Do Instead

Don’t just toss these six items in your recycling bin. Many common kitchen items like clamshells, foil and greasy pizza boxes often can’t go in curbside recycling. Food residue on containers and mixed ...
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Can we finally recycle all of the metal in scrap cars?

Scrap cars could be used to build new electric vehicles thanks to a new process for turning various aluminium alloys into a strong and mouldable metal ...

Research team invents plastic material that completely transforms when exposed to light: 'We see it as a breakthrough'

However, with photochemical recycling, an LED light selectively splits stable chemical bonds in the polymer, allowing original building blocks of the polymer chain to be recovered and then used to ...