Recycling
Recycle Everything in your Life! Start Recycling Everything If You Can't Reuse It!
You've heard of people recycling everything from printer paper to your old jeans, but you can recycle nearly everything in your life. If it can't be reused, then it most likely can be recycled instead. Car batteries and tires? Yes, those can be recycled. Can you recycle your old roof shingles? Yes! How about your shower curtain? Yes again! Find some creative ways to reduce the amount of stuff that you throw away in your life and be a little greener with the following list of 50 earth friendly...
Recycling Efforts In Richland Washington Specifically, and Washington State and the Nation in Genera
Recycling, brought to you by real estate agents, Joe and Colleen Lane of The Lane Real Estate Team (Search For A Home). Recycled issues and recycle news, and ways you can contribute positively to the environment in Richland Washington specifically, and a lens on recycling in general. Email This Page To A Friend Today! | Lensroll Add to del.icio.us | digg this | Stumble It!
A mysterious stranger knocks on the door. He hands you a small leaf green envelope and waits patiently. Curious, you turn it over and flip open the unsealed flap, remove a tiny note, and read: WASTE NOT. For the next month, you're not allowed to throw anything away. Thirty days of not tossing a single thing into the trash... do you accept the stranger's challenge? You keep reading... Does an entire month without putting anything in the trash sound unbearable? Take a one-day Waste Not Chall...
From Computers to Washing Machines, There's a Way to Recycle Almost Anything!
You already know how to recycle the basics, like bottles, cans, cardboard and paper, but what about the not-so-everyday items? Items like aerosol cans, cellphones and mattresses can still be recycled, but not curbside. Find out here where you can recycle these everyday items that don't have everday recycling methods.
The Consequences of Not Recycling!
Recycling isn't exactly a new idea, but it's only moved to a more important aspect of everyone's lives within the last few years. We're still slow on progress in the green world, but some things have been accomplished. Is this enough? The answer, simply, is no, and we need to continue to focus our efforts on more green ideas, conservation, and of course, recycling. Some people, however, just cannot be convinced. For those skeptics, here's a list of things that might happen if you don't recycle.
What is upcycling? It is taking items, which you would normally throw out, and using them to make new products - such as an old pair of jeans made into a funky bag. This is a great way to save you money and at the same time reduce the amount of waste that ends up in our tips. The cute vintage car on the left, photographed at our local show, is another example. It was made using two 3 litre milk bottles, one 2 litre milk bottle, two drinking straws, one skewer and a bead.Picture credit: my ow...
Recycling, throwing out and gifting stuff
I have a huge problem with accumulating stuff. You'd think that being a penniless artist would make it better but no. Everyone knows I recycle fabric and allsorts of junk in my art and craft work so I get given A LOT of stuff and I find it hard not taking stuff when I know that often it's me or some landfill site somewhere. I barely have any of my own money but I always have the things I need and more somehow. This is a blessing but it can also be a curse. Don't get me wrong, if I did have...
Recycling Prescription Bottles
In 2007 I wrote an article, 21 Ways to Recycle Empty Prescription Bottles, for a green website called About My Planet. It is still one of my most popular articles today, but since 2007 I have learned of new and interesting ways to recycle empty RX (prescription) bottles. In an effort to keep these bottle out of the landfill and in addition to that article I wrote above, I have also created this lens to share the new and old, but still useful ideas, with you.
Cut Down on Wrapping Paper Waste with Recycled Gift Wrap and Repurposed Materials to Wrap your Gifts
We've all seen it...mounds and mounds and mounds of wrapping paper, gift bags, bows, ribbons, it's been debated THAT is the best part of the holiday gift opening...but how much are we wasting? Can we have just as much fun opening gifts by using something recycled or repurposed? The answer: you can have even MORE fun! Here's how.. Photo courtsey of The Daily Green
Recycling - Fun and imformative facts about cans!
WOW- Every minute - everyday, an average of 105,800 aluminum cans are recycled!. I have compiled a fun and informative list of some recycling tips for aluminum cans. Check these out and share them with your friends and family. If we continue making an effort, look at al the diference we can make! Enjoy
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