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We’ve all seen the little triangle of arrows on the bottoms of plastic bottles and other containers, intended to guide consumers to proper plastic recycling. But if you also have noticed the ...

If you grabbed a cup of coffee from your local chain this morning, what did you do with the cup? Trash it? Recycle it? Maybe you threw the plastic lid in the “landfill” can and tossed the paper cup in ...

DeKalb County has reduced the kinds of materials that it accepts in its single-stream residential recycling program, eliminating plastics numbered #3-#7 and shredded paper. An announcement in the City ...