recycling

A major Northeast cheese producer will begin using recycled packaging with some of its products.

An Albany County town is expanding its food scraps composting program.

A Southern Albany County factory opened its doors to reporters Wednesday for conversations with the site’s leadership and a preview of its innovative eco-friendly products.

Americans generate a lot of trash. According to the EPA, in 2018 the United States produced nearly 300 million tons of waste. Unfortunately, most of that waste ends up in the nation’s landfills.

The Town of Bethlehem in Albany County is showing off its new food scraps composting system.

I don’t typically read the labels on products, especially those I’m not planning to digest. But the label splashed across a newly purchased spray bottle of Windex was impossible to miss. “Bottle made of 100% OCEAN BOUND PLASTIC” it read.

New York State’s bottle deposit law, also known as the Bottle Bill, has been around for so long, it’s hard to imagine it remains controversial. You buy certain containers, you place a nickel deposit, return it, and get the nickel back. Less junk for the landfill, more recycling of wastes.

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The largest city in western Massachusetts is making a change in its recycling program. It could have a ripple effect in other municipalities in the…