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How many items get recycled in the United States?

Dear Heloise: We spend all this energy saving things to recycle, but I wonder just how much of it actually gets recycled. Do you know? Thanks for all your advice. We love you in the Tribune Chronicle. –– Bob S., in Cortland, Ohio Bob, the most recent data estimates that the overall recycling rate in the United States is 32.1 percent: • Paper and paperboard accounts for 79.1 percent. • Plastic is sadly only 5 percent to 9 percent. The difficulty with plastic centers around added dyes and the lack of machinery needed for various plastic types. • Recycling rules and ...

Today in History

Today is Monday, July 28, the 209th day of 2025. There are 156 days left in the year. Today in history: On July 28, 1945, A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, the world’s tallest structure at the time, killing 14 people. Also on this date: In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops ...

Horoscope

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Pretending eats energy. Sometimes you don’t even realize how you’re changing yourself to fit the situation. Today, you’ll see it and stop. No over-curating yourself today. Let go of roles that no longer serve so you can be stronger, freer and more available for what matters. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ve done the hard part — faced the feelings, made the decisions, brought yourself right to the edge of something new. Now the door is open. All that’s left is the step. You’re ready. One breath, one step, and it’s on. GEMINI (May 21-June ...

Husband must address triggers

Dear Annie: My husband does not like my sister. He says she reminds him too much of his ex-wife. It has now come to the point where he doesn’t want to be around her. This is making it very difficult to see my whole family. They live in Canada, and we are planning a trip there to visit them, seeing as my father’s mental health is getting bad. My husband refuses to go see my sister while we are there. When I told my sister that this is a special trip to spend time with my parents and we won’t have time to go to her place, which is another three-hour drive away, she got pretty ...

Low DEXA calls for bone-growth medicine

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old man. I have a DEXA score of -3.3. I take 1,200 mg of calcium with vitamin D daily. I lift weights and swim two to three times a week. My doctor put me on Prolia, and I had six months of infections. He switched me to Fosamax, and my blood pressure was 201/121 mmHg. I found a Phase 4 clinical trial showing that Fosamax can cause high blood pressure, but my doctor says that Fosamax “doesn’t cause high blood pressure.” I’m reluctant to try the other bisphosphonates for fear that they will do the same as Fosamax. Do I try the other drugs one at a ...

Bringing your own to-go box when going out

Dear Heloise: My husband and I are in the habit of taking our own to-go box with us when we go out to eat. We almost always have leftovers. Just a simple plastic container like mostly everyone has in the kitchen will do. We also keep a similar container in each car for the few times that we forget to take a container with us from the house. Early in the process of making this a habit, we had to walk back to the car a few times to get the container, but now I almost never go out to eat without my purse and my to-go box. This habit keeps a lot of trash out of landfills. –– Linda, in ...