Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may have heard some of the staggering statistics around the amount of waste within the beauty industry. (For example, ...

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A factory making Cushelle toilet paper and Plenty kitchen towels believes it is the first manufacturer to turn a waste by-product into animal bedding. The Essity Stubbins paper mill recycles about ...

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In festive news, a majority (66%) of U.S. adult consumers believe that recycling paper is worth it and 60% felt that recycling is easy, according to recent research by ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

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Hi, Nicole here, from Refinery29. Today, I'm going to teach you how to recycle your beauty products. To get us started, I have two products here that are right about ready to be recycled. They each ...