Please put those waxy cardboard cartons in the trash. Where does our trash go? In recent years Brookline’s trash was trucked to the Southbridge Landfill.

Master gardener Leimone Waite answers readers’ questions about plants, garden tools and their use, and gardening techniques.

To start building your garden beds using this technique, you'll need to collect non-waxy cardboard, newspaper, manure from non-meat eating animals, grass clippings, leaves, compost, sawdust, etc ...

—Waxy cardboard or paper items, such as waxed dairy, broth and juice containers, are not acceptable. —Shredded paper is not acceptable.

PARKERSBURG — The city sanitation supervisor says there are a few items he and the workers in the department would appreciate residents not put in their recycle bins this holiday season.

Here in Summit County, paperboard/cardboard, paper, aluminum/tin cans, and plastic bottles, jugs and tubs are all thrown into one bin. So just toss that cereal box right in there.