Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, ...

Recycling can be a somewhat time-consuming task; so can you please provide some benefits of taking the time to separate my trash? Recycling, which turns materials that would otherwise be incinerated ...

I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be ...

The other day I got a call from one of my in-laws asking about recycling. She lives in Georgia, and wanted to know why she couldn’t recycle her glass. And to that, since I don’t run her town’s ...