Recycling Numbers Take Hit
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By Herman Wang, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 11--Hixson resident Howard McNeese was an avid recycler when  curbside collection was weekly, but since the city cut pickup to monthly,  storing aluminum cans and newspapers for a month at a time has pushed him to  quit recycling.
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The fine holiday tradition of returns goes high tech. Here's how to unload unwanted plastic.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 22--The shelves and bins scattered throughout Second Chance Building Materials Center's store in Boise overflow with wood scraps, light-switch plates and other building materials -- including kitchen sinks.
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Households could be charged per bag of rubbish as part of the government's plans to boost recycling.
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By Tom Troy, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 4--About 22 percent of Toledo households have pledged to join the city's curbside recycling program and save themselves $2.50 a month on the new trash collection fee, city officials say.
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And that's too bad, because it looks as though 100 million of them are being wasted here.
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Leading food retailers use too much packaging, with up to 40% unable to be recycled, a report suggests.
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Garbage hauler Frank Treto quickly spots enough junk mail and cardboard to warrant whipping out a bright yellow warning tag, one of hundreds he's doled out since the city's mandatory recycling law took effect this year.
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By ANN S. KIM Staff Writer  When the two plastic crates at Tom Wiest's home fill up, it's time to head to the downtown recycling station. His desire to help the environment makes him a regular visitor.
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One man&#39;s treasure is another man&#39;s trash. Never has the butchered saying been more true than today in Hong Kong when the contents of more than 80 safety deposit boxes were dumped in a Kowloon scrapyard.
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Promoter Don King opened the heavyweight divisionâs recycle bin at New York on Saturday night, and Evander Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Andrew Golota, Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall came tumbling out.
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Online auction company eBay Inc.  EBAY.O on Thursday unveiled an initiative to join personal  computer makers and their environmental critics in an effort to  recycle more of the up to 400 million electronic products that  are thrown out every year.
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Local authorities and recycling companies could be penalised for selling green waste to farmers and gardeners following changes to rules governing green waste.
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Councils in England will be allowed to pilot schemes to charge households according to how much rubbish they throw out. Is this the best way to promote recycling?
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Scientists have recently turned to trash in an effort to unearth organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.  It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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Recycling, alternative power, and carbon credits are often tough in an industry where obsolescence is often swift.