You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Spring cleaning season has brought new reminders about what can and cannot be recycled in the area. The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority shared that yard tools like shovels and rakes are not ...