Recycling

The rapid devolution of print journalism gets regularly lamented for all the right reasons — among them the losses of investigative voices, institutional memories and checks on the powerful. A less-noted side-effect is cities’ loss of revenue from recycling newsprint.

Live Christmas trees have received holiday blessings from environmentalists for many reasons. Besides the fact that most artificial trees are made in part of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), tree farms absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife. Not to mention that live trees smell better than PVC.

But the holidays [...]