Opening presents together with loved ones is often a joyous part of the holiday season, but it can also create a lot of extra waste. With piles of shiny Christmas paper, bows, boxes, and gift bags, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The holidays create a lot of waste, with all the wrapped presents, holiday-centric clothing and strands of lights that don't work ...

The holidays aren’t so happy in the recycling world. Workers see literally tons of stuff at this time of year that Santa would say is naughty. Top of that list? Strings of old holiday lights, the most ...

I used to love buying new wrapping paper each Christmas and creating a whole theme of colors and motifs for all the gifts I gave. While I totally still adore the whole faux bois or gnome-themed ...

Opening presents together with loved ones is often a joyous part of the holiday season, but it can also create a lot of extra waste. With piles of shiny Christmas paper, bows, boxes, and gift bags, ...

As Christmas Day comes to a close, so many of our homes will be filled with piles and piles of holiday wrapping scraps. We’ll tell you how to properly dispose of all this waste — what can be recycled ...