Nashville resident Kylee Francescan made a grisly discovery recently while disposing of some newspapers in a recycling dumpster behind an elementary school: hundreds of letters, "covered with pictures, hearts, and sparkles" addressed to Taylor Swift.

Some of the best Portlandia sketches are pseudo-commercial types where characters attempt to sell not just a product but a way of live to us. In this sketch, twins Marcus and Madeleine attempt to sell us recycling, their particular brand of recycling, and it comes off great. The constant asides, the subtle music cues,…

A man from Tacoma is under arrest after having approached a neighbor at his apartment complex at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, and asking them if he could dump a dead body in their trash.

A "butchered torso" was found at a recycling plant in Seattle over the weekend, apparently just "rolling by on a conveyer belt." It's unclear where the body had been separated from its other parts, but it was apparently "mixed in with materials from a construction site." We appreciate that everyone, including…

Sometimes material is just too good to use once and throw away. This seems to be the case with Jason Segel's Kermit story, since he used it last week and again last night on Late Night. Comparison inside.

Newly emboldened Tea Party members in Fountain Hills, Arizona are strongly protesting their town council's decision to hire a single trash hauler and start a curbside pickup program for recycling, complaining that leaders are "taking a leap toward socialism." [via]

Who cares about sweaters made out of recycled plastic fibers? This man takes it to the next level by making an entirely self-sufficient island paradise in Cancun floating on thousands of plastic bottles. He's even got a "washing machine"!

Oh this is cute and seems vaguely like a story from the early 1990s. A Spokane, WA couple is paying for their wedding using the $3,800 they made from recycling 400,000 cans. They have a website, here.

Yesterday, Men's Health editor David Zinczenko got caught cutting and pasting old cover lines onto the new issue of his magazine. Today, he explained that it was a deliberate "overall branding strategy." Boy, was he right.

Does the Spike Lee quote from The Guardian about how he's a man of means, but not Oprah-means, in today's Page Six and Huffington Post sound familiar?

The magazine industry cares about the environment. They promise. For example, did you know that magazines can be recycled? Just put them right there in the recycling bins and feel the satisfaction! The industry is even running a campaign to urge you all to "Please Recycle This Magazine" after you read it (though I…

A few months ago in the City section, Sari Botton talked about how tough it was for her traditional Jewish daddums —a cantor!—to accept that not only was she marrying a Catholic, she was eschewing a traditional Big Fat Jew Wedding. Thing is, though, ever since the nups, Sari has been throwing herself a sort of an…

TIM FAULKNER — Now that the "greener" Apple has made an effort to openly discuss their environmental policies, they are being more proactive with new initiatives. They have just announced an educational recycling program open to all accredited K-12 and Higher Education institutions with at least 25 systems (from any…

Item 10 on our map of the Googleplex is a pair of circus-y statues outside Building 45. A reader reminisces: