In the quest to become more environmentally conscious, many people have begun keeping plastic and glass bottles around to use as planters, decorative pieces, or if you're like me, containers for ...

Most plastic bottles used for beverages, like soda bottles and common water bottle brands, have plastic or paper labels that are affixed with a strong glue, such as water-based or hot melt adhesive.

Instead of tossing cool glass bottles and jars into the recycling, clean them up for use in cool DIYs. And this basically free eco-friendly solution doesn't leave your hands smelling like chemicals ...

For the longest time I had a love/hate relationship with repurposing and reusing empty containers. While I loved being able to give empty bottles and jars new life by finding some other way to use ...

The Herbold Meckesheim USA, based in Smithfield, R.I., has introduced the Herbold Meckesheim Label Remover, which the company says is effective in the removing wraparound polyvinyl chloride (PVC) ...

I have an assortment of glass bottles and jars that I’ve been saving and buying up at yard sales over the past month so I can store my homemade limoncello. Some of the jars I’ve saved had labels ...

Removing labels and stickers from a surface can be a pain, but there is a way to get them off without leaving behind sticky residue. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and ...

I’m reading the Jan. 5 Ask Us column about the prescription medicine bottles, and I don’t understand why it would be necessary to remove the labels from bottles when you put them in the recycling bin.