American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

If your trash and recycling bins are already overflowing with cardboard boxes, glass bottles and debris from holiday ...

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Whether packing peanuts can be recycled or not depends largely on what they are made of and the type of recycling facilities that exist in your area. Packing peanuts are actually color-coded—they come ...

The historic Alex R. Thomas pear-packing plant, which provided generations of Ukiah youths with summer jobs until bankruptcy forced its closure three years ago, is slated to reopen as a composting and ...