The end-of-the-year holidays often include exchanging gifts, time with family and friends, and memories to cherish in the years to come. They also mean trash — mountains of used gift wrap, boxes ...

That pile of post-holiday gift wrap from opened presents — recycle bin or garbage bin? Keith Matheny. Detroit Free Press. The end-of-the-year holidays often include exchanging gifts, ...

Every time I rip open a lovingly wrapped gift (and plenty of us will have done that today), one thing pops into my mind: trash. The wrapping paper, trash. The package hidden underneath it, trash ...

NEW YORK - Scrooge-like spending patterns for the holidays appear to be a thing of the past for wealthy Americans, who are preparing to open their wallets this year after sitting on piles of cash.

You see gobs of gift wrap piled up on your living room carpet; copious cardboard and piles of paperboard, and you think, "recycle bin." But a surprising amount of that material isn't appropriate ...