Food scraps recycling pilot program

County officials say collection can reduce landfill waste by up to 23 percent Robyn Page and her daughters, 6-year-old Vivienne Page Gilmore, left, and Simone Page Gilmore, 9, center, eat watermelon. Afterward, they put the scraps in a container in their...

Neat concept: Soap recycling

By Felipe Cabrera/The Star-Ledger Frances Micklow/The Star-LedgerYvane Romelus, a house keeper at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, NJ, separates used soap and lotion to be donated, recycled and given out in places where there is need. When Shawn Seipler and...

California Cities Start Recycling Roads

ANDREW PRICE Web Editor Recession is the mother of invention. With transportation infrastructure in a sorry state in California—the proliferation of potholes in Los Angeles, for example, is incredible—more cities are turning to a method of repairing roads by recycling...