American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Acceptable Christmastime recycling items include boxes, paper gift bags, tissue paper, cards and envelopes, and wrapping ...