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Recycling & Waste

Here you'll find tips to make recycling and green living easy for your household. Learn about composting, waste handling, wastewater treatment, graywater, upcycling, recycling symbols and how to handle household hazardous waste.

Understanding Recycling Symbols

An easy guide to the array of recycling symbols found on products and packaging.

Cradle to Cradle – Review of Cradle to Cradle Book

The authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things look beyond recycling to consider the entire lifecycle of products, materials and waste.

How to Recycle Your Old Cell Phone

Old cell phones that contain hazardous materials like lead, mercury and arsenic are the fastest-growing type of manufactured garbage in the nation.

Recycling Fluorescent Light Bulbs

When a CFL or compact fluorescent lamp burns out, you just throw it in the trash, right? Wrong!

Recycling at the Office

Learn how to help make your company's recycling program a success.

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