Today’s Green Living tip comes from Pamela Sterling, owner of Laguna Green Southern California’s first exclusively green kitchen and bath showroom, located in Laguna Beach. There are a few things that ...

Have you got a big box in your basement filled with packing peanuts that you hate to throw out? Many businesses that handle mailing and shipping services will take polystyrene packing material — known ...

As folks swap gifts and tear into packages this holiday season, city officials want to remind residents to properly dispose of everything from Christmas trees to bows and ribbon to bubble wrap and ...

Many of the ideas feel, well, pretty recycled by now. Newspapers, cans and bottles, your dad’s “classic” joke as he’s about to carve the Thanksgiving turkey … Who among us isn’t totally familiar with ...

When a new lab was recently being set up at Purdue University in Indiana, a lot of the equipment arrived in boxes full of protective packing "peanuts." Unfortunately, few facilities exist for ...

I have packing peanuts that are water soluble. How do I dispose of them? I can't find a name for them in the Recyclopedia. Also, would you consider putting the address for the Recyclopedia in your ...

Question: I’ve got bags of packing peanuts and I’d like to get rid of them. Can I recycle them? Answer: Packing “peanuts” should not be placed in our local recycling. Some are made from Styrofoam ...

The Christmas tree is down and the decorations are carefully packed away. Now the big question remains: what to do with those thousands of tiny white pellets spilling out of boxes and clinging to the ...

Last week I told you about a campaign by the city of Sioux Falls to better educate residents about what can and can’t be recycled by distributing informational mailers. Over the weekend, though, a ...