Did you know that George Mason University Recycling and Waste Management recycled 325,120 lbs. of cardboard in 2009, which generated $3,307....

My colleague asked me that question. While we happen to know a DC artist who wants plastic corks, plastic corks generally can't be recyc...

Every time I walk past the bag bin at 7th and A St SE (see photo below), I see new bags in and old bags gone, so people are really using th...

There is a bin for collecting used bags, including Post bags, at 7th and A St SE! Some people might think about putting up similar bins in ...

The Hill was strewn with hundreds (thousands?) of Examiner newspapers in plastic bags on Sunday. They do this at least once per year. This i...

According to the NYT , eBay has started promoting the green benefits of buying used. Ebay calculated that purchasing a used leather handbag...

Well, I haven't had many thermostats in my time, but now one can easily recycle thermostats at Frager's and other locations around ...

After years of getting the Post and recycling the daily plastic bags, I finally realized that I could "donate" these bags to my n...

I'll bet many of you are finding that your recycling bin fills up much faster than your garbage can. Well, I'll probably get called ...

Really, rechargeable batteries have improved, retain their charge much longer, and, according to Tree Hugger , are much less damaging than d...

I think we have to get beyond the handwringing about e-recycling (but it all goes to Africa, but it is never recycled, but but but) and thin...

As many of you probably already saw in the Post , Green America came out with a report on the sorry state of recycling in the airline indust...

I dropped by the Radio Shack at Eastern Market Metro to pick up used batteries they are collecting for us. They gave me a huge bag of batter...

One way to keep a huge amount of material from landfills is to compost. DC Urban Gardeners has a great website about composting: Composting...

Since we could no longer return this broken Ipod, we decided to recycle it (and its many cables). I first went to Gazelle to recycle it for...

On my recycling travels around the Hill, I stopped by Hill's Kitchen to collect a couple of Brita water filters. Leah at Hill's Kit...

The Stuart-Hobson Middle School on the Hill makes envelopes around of old wall calendars (Recyclelopes), which they sell for $5 per set at R...

What to do with your holiday cards? Recycle them! St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Nevada takes all used greeting cards and turns them ...

The Washington Humane Society also takes used yoga mats (see #14 in the General DC Recycling Info column to the right)!

Let's just put it simply. In the DC area, the far-and-away leader in recycling is BWI Airport. BWI recycling went from less than 5% of w...