When fall temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, many people’s thoughts turn to preparing their homes and yards for
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The Scrap Tire Puzzle
Maybe this is you. Winter is coming, your tires are bald. You head to your local big box store in
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How My Family Took a Vacation from Creating Extra Trash
My family and I decided to get-away for a few days and have a quick adventure. Our travels took us away from home for three days, which gave us plenty of opportunity to eat out and create waste.
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Thinking Outside the Trashcan – 15 Back to School Green Tips
Saving money while saving the environment is easier than ever when you follow these 15 easy tips from the Cuyahoga
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Contamination: Wish-cycling (and why we wish it would end)
Here at CuyahogaRecycles.org, we like recycling. However, we do not like wish-cycling which causes contamination. Wish-cycling is a term we
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Intern Introspective: My Summer Talking Trash
This summer, I spent eight weeks with the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District in Cleveland, Ohio as a communications intern.
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How to Properly Recycle Plastic
Author’s Note: Originally posted in 2017, this story was updated on June 17, 2018. Recycling of some plastic items has
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How to Reuse: 9 Resources for Learning More
Whether it’s sewing an old pair of jeans or patching a worn bike tire, it’s important to remember about reuse
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Residential Recycling Report: How Green is Cuyahoga County?
The District publishes the Residential Recycling Report annually to demonstrate how community recycling efforts add up to help us get
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Reduce is First for a Reason
Almost every time I enter a classroom, I ask about the three “R” words that remind us to be good
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