Recycling shredded documents is good, but using them to feed your soil is even better.

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A gardener's hard-earned composting lesson is striking a chord online after "compostable" restaurant paper turned into a pile ...

A: Absolutely, positively. Shredded office paper, newspaper and assorted non-glossy junk mail are great additives to a compost pile. They're high-carbon ingredients -- similar to brown, fallen leaves ...

Q. Can you tell me if the paper from my paper shredder can be used as mulch? Seems to me it is actually the same basic material as the ground-up tree trimmings I see being used. -- M.B., Houston A.

Q: It seems like there’s always a lot of waste around the holidays with wrapping paper filling a big trash bag. Can I compost wrapping paper? How about tissue paper and ribbon? A: Yes, some wrapping ...

Pexels Most people walk past their lawn trimmings, fallen leaves, and garden debris without a second thought. That pile of ...