If you're surrounded by endless wrapping paper, festive bows and Christmas cards this holiday, it's important to note proper recycling protocols – especially for paper products, the most recycled ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...

If you haven't been swimming in cardboard boxes, wrapping paper and styrofoam in the leadup to the biggest gift-giving day of the year, you probably are now. Before you just haul out the garbage bags ...

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