According to industry data, $2.6 billion will be spent on candy in 2019, and Americans purchase nearly 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween. But a new initiative is helping keep some of those ...

Photo provided Columbus Department of Public Works Trick or Trash box will be located at the top of the stairs inside Columbus City Hall, 123 Washington St., for recycling of candy wrappers after ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The drizzly weather cannot stop five-year-old Flynn Schedler from trying to keep his Brooklyn neighborhood clean. Dressed in rain boots and gloves, he scoured the block with his mom ...

According to a survey from the National Confectioners Association, 75 percent of people plan to celebrate Halloween this year, and among those people, 93 percent of them plan to with lots of chocolate ...

Since 2010, students and faculty at East Middle School in Westminster have been participating in an eco-friendly program through the recycling and up-cycling company, TerraCycle. Now, through their ...

The former teen idol Zac Efron is riding a skateboard, and then he's dressed for some reason in a bee-keeper's uniform. He's talking about the "pretty freaking cool" second life of recycled plastics, ...

Americans are expected to spend over $27 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, and the result will be mass amounts of greeting cards, candy and flowers. “The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority ...

Each year, more than 600 million pounds of candy is purchased for Halloween in the United States. The vast majority of the wrappers that candy comes in end up in landfills due to an inability by most ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Republic Services, a solid waste, and recycling company in Linn County said people throwing candy wrappers in the recycling is a problem following Halloween. Republic ...

As a resident in Staten Island for the past 22 years, I have noticed a few environmental issues. These issues seem to be a steady problem in Staten Island. One I would like to focus on is the problem ...