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Stop Crushing Your Metal Cans. Here's the Best Way to Recycle

Generally, you don't need to remove paper labels from metal or aluminum cans before you chuck them in the recycling bin. When ...
Morning Call PA

Emrick Center’s cup runs over ** Company donates machine that made lids at Dixie plant for nearly half a century.

The Emrick Technology Center at Hugh Moore Park received an unusual but significant donation Tuesday morning — a machine that for nearly half a century made plastic lids for Dixie Cups. “This is a ...
Popular Science

Sorting and recycling plastic is notoriously hard—but this AI could help

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s one of society’s worst kept secrets: Most plastic thrown ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Plastic bottle lids inspire 3D-printed prosthetic limbs, artworks, and future leaders

What started as a school art project could soon be providing practical help to children in need of prosthetic limbs. Students in a supported learning unit have been making an artwork out of drink lids ...
Ventura County Star

Eco-tip: When recycling gives you glass, keep a lid on it

Art Goulet, of Camarillo, contacted me regarding my recent article about leaving lids on plastic bottles when recycling, keeping lids off steel containers and handling aseptic packages and juice boxes ...
Seattle Times

Recycle right: misconceptions, and what not to do

You dutifully toss your soda cans and last week’s newspaper in the bin and wheel it out to the curb every other week. But are you recycling right? Seattle has some of the highest recycling rates in ...