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How To Reuse Used Sheets
Give Your Used Bed Sheets New Life By Reusing Them!
What to do with bed sheets when it's time to replace them? Reuse them, of course! No need to trash them when they can continue enjoy a useful life as something 'new'! Anyone can use the ideas here, but if you're a bit crafty and like to sew - so much the better! Sewing opens up a universe of ways to reuse old bed sheets. I can't say that I'm using all of these ideas myself YET, but I sure have bunches of them in my crafts notebook, ready and waiting for that next set of sheets to come along...

50 Things You Can Reduce
Reduce Your Impact on the Environment and Go Green with these Easy Energy and Resource Saving Tips!
The first step in going green is to reduce the amount of things that you throw away and consume. These means reducing your energy bills, your grocery bills, water usage, and gas consumption. This can be one of the most rewarding forms of leading a green lifestyle, as you realize the financial benefits as well as help the environment at the same time! Read on for 50 easy ways that you can start reducing various aspects of your life today, from the trash you throw away to junk mail.

Why Recycle?
Why Should We Recycle?
I chose to name this lens "Why Recycle" because it is a question that a lot of folks ask.  Why take the time to recycle old newspapers, tin cans, plastic bottles, etc.?  What do I get out of it?  Well, I hope to answer these questions as well as give tips, tricks, and ideas on how you can expand your thinking about what recycling encompasses.  A lot of people have the perception that people who recycle are sandal wearing, dirt munching, tree hugging druids.  I hope to dispel that myth and any...

How to recycle used batteries
Wondering what to do with used batteries? Consider recycling them!
Batteries are all over the place, we can see it in all kinds of electronic devices. A battery is an electrochemical device to convert chemical energy to electrical energy to provide power to our electronic devices. The chemical used in battery will pollute the environment heavily if the batteries are improperly disposed of. In this article will show you how to safety disposed and recycled a used battery.

How to Set Up a Home Recycling System
Reduce Waste in your Home by More than 50%
Yes, it is possible to do just that with your own home recycling system. After setting up our recycling system at home, my husband was amazed at the drop in our trash volume. We now put out one trash can every other week! And, without saying a word on our part, our neighbors asked us why we had so little trash. To make recycling a habit for your family, it needs to be easy and convenient. I will show you step by step how to set up recycling at your home with designated bins to conveniently...

ecycler
ecycler is a New Way to Recycle!
We watch the recycling world and blog about important events, legislation or just plain interesting ideas. We also post updates regarding our main site, ecycler.com and our Canada site ecycler.ca. Ecycler creates a new way to recycle by connecting people discarding recyclables with those wishing to collect them. Ecycler is the single web destination for recycling online. Our Goals 1. Make improvements to the environment through recycling 2. Enhance the social value of recycling 3. Support ...

Stylish Recycling Bins for Greener Living
Recycling Bins You Won't Want to Hide in Your Garage!
Many of us are already committed to recycling whatever we can and reducing our impact on our planet. While recycling isn't nearly as useful as the hype it is an important step in sustainability. For those of us with city recycling programs at our disposal you may be using a standard issue recycle bin and while they are helpful, they are far from attractive. Hiding an ugly bin inside the garage might mean we skip the recycling step sometimes or we simply put up with an ugly bin in our kitchen....

Where to Recycle
Recycling can be done without going to a recycling center - businesses and residences that wish to recycle their aluminum cans, plastic and glass bottles and newspapers need go no further than their computer.

Recycle Your Carpet
Recycle Your Used Carpet
So you just had your living room recarpeted. What are you going to do with the old carpet? The installers will probably just take it back to the shop and throw it away. Why don't you recycle your used carpet? As the most recent statistics say that we piled 5 billion pounds of carpet in the landfills in 2005. That's ridiculous when we are complaining about putting plastic bottles in the landfills because they don't easily decompose. It's virtually the same thing, carpet is nylon or latex or e...

How to Recycle your Clothing
Find Ways to Recycle your Clothing, Repurpose it, and Reuse it!
Recycling your clothing is easier than you might think. You might be doing it already! It's one of the simplest things to recycle, but one of the most important. You can donate your used clothing, repurpose it into something else, or sell it. Any one of these options is much greener than simply tossing it away, destined for a landfill. Find places to donate your clothing here, as well as some new uses for your old articles and a brief how-to on selling off your old clothes!