At Anthracite Recycling in Scranton, they are all about, well, recycling everything from cardboard to scrap metal and now, Styrofoam. People can drop off big Styrofoam packaging and even those ...

Styrofoam should be taken out of cardboard boxes and those cardboard boxes should be broken down to maximize space, supervisor Ric Deere said. If the boxes aren’t flattened, “it’ll eat up ...

Not all paper is created equal when it comes to recycling. Like Christmas cards, wrapping paper with a foil, glossy or glitter decoration, it can’t be recycled.

March 18th is Global Recycling Day. While you may know that plastic bottles and cardboard boxes go into the recycle bin, do you know how to recycle your mattress? Don’t feel bad if you don’t ...

Styrofoam in a no-no. Why: Styrofoam is a type of plastic called polystyrene and is not part of the recycling process for Brown County. This includes take-out containers, packaging materials, cups ...

Embracing recycling Styrofoam ... The fast-food giants McDonald’s and Burger King bowed to public pressure about 20 years back, and moved back to paper, ...

The foam industry also argues that people use multiple paper cups instead of one foam cup. “Recycling ‘non-biodegradable’ products like aluminum, glass, and plastic (Including PS foam) is a win for ...