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Check out the list of ten illegal items to put in a recycling bin in New York State. A few may surprise you.

Does your neighborhood have someone who comes through every week and goes through all the recycling trash cans looking for any cans or bottles that could be returned for money? Does it bother you?

Bears are done hibernating and there will be more sightings in the coming months. Here are some guidelines that can help keep you, your family, and your pets safe.

The City of Troy is once again warning the public against illegal disposal of hazardous waste after a fire started in a truck because of improperly sealed acid.

The number of bear sightings is way up with year according to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.

One of the things we are allowed to do during the coronavirus pandemic is to enjoy the beautiful nature around us. We are lucky because we are surrounded by the Adirondacks and near the Catskills but the state wants you to clean up after yourself.

Just when you thought something was free, the Albany council is currently working on a new trash tax plan. But it is not all bad.

Yesterday I wrote a story about the true sign that Spring is totally 100% here at the 1077 'GNA studios in Schenectady. The first dump gull of the season appeared here and I named him "Davey " The Dump Gull. Well, he's back today. Dump gulls for some reason always bother me when they are around and leave everyone else alone.

I call them seagulls when I see them in Atlantic City, but when I see them here I call them dump gulls.

Here is the daily dilemma for Wednesday, January 4th: "Now that the holidays are over I started taking down my Christmas decorations.  I especially just don't see the point in keeping the Christmas tree up any longer.  So needless to say, I took the ornaments off and put the tree at the curb for the garabage men to pick up...

I love my little play on words there. I'm pretty sure it was right in the Bible, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's can", but I cant be sure. If it wasn't maybe it should have been. I know before this morning I did not know how many people take their trash seriously.

Once a week, most of us have garbage pickup at our homes. We used to have these blue or green plastic crates or bins to put the stuff to be recycled in.