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07Jun

“Need to Recycle Your Satellite TV Dish? Read This First”

27% of U.S. homes have satellite TV. @Earth911 offers tips on how homeowners can recycle their dish at the end of its useful life.

06Jun

Storage tip from @zerowaster to cut kitchen waste: don’t wrap items in plastic—use paper/cardboard, glass jars, foil, oilcloth or parchment.

05Jun

A record 68.1 percent of the paper consumed in the United States in 2018 was recovered for recycling, according to @ForestandPaper.

04Jun

Moral persuasion, deposit schemes, or free-market mechanisms—which method is best to incentivize people to recycle?

03Jun

@RecycleAcrossAm backs Interior-Environment funding bill report’s advice to @EPA to boost recycling programs via standard recycling labels.

31May

There are roughly 34 million single-family homes in rural U.S. communities that don’t have access to recycling, according to @recyclopsutah.

30May

Because glass is so breakable, much of it is landfilled instead of recycled—as broken glass can contaminate other recycled materials.

29May

With China now banning imports of many recyclables, the first two “R’s”—reducing and reusing—are more important than ever.

28May

@ProcterGamble is supporting research to develop a process for recycling the 20 billion disposable diapers used in the U.S. annually.

24May

Which is LESS green—an aluminum can or a plastic bottle? Because many plastics are downcycled rather than recycled, bottles lose out here.

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