Recycling-challenged New York City gets its first deputy commissioner for recycling and sustainability in the form of RecycleBank co-founder Ron Gonen.

Spring Back Recycling combines environmentalism with social justice by hiring previously incarcerated people to recycle used mattresses.

Is the coolest new green prefab project in the Bay Area a recycling facility? From the looks of the soon-to-open El Cerrito Recycling and Environmental Resource Center, I'm leaning towards 'yes.'

Thanks to a little healthy competition between city sanitation workers and two private firms, the roughly 320,000 Chicago households without curbside recycling could be getting blue bins to call their own.

Writing things out in long hand can be a good way to get in touch with what's going on in your life — and where you want to go.

Don't put those handy cups in the recycling bin just yet.

Those mountains of discarded trinkets can be repurposed for other festive occasions or used in some crazy DIY crafts. Just make sure they're clean.

The New York City Department of Sanitation deems the re-fashioNYC textile recycling initiative a success with 50 tons of last season's sweaters and stained-beyond-repair towels being donated in a six month period.

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