ReUse Decision Making: The How Much Does it Cost? Alternative

In the grocery store. . . I remember that I need to buy plates for an upcoming picnic. I get to the shelf with paper plates and notice several brands . . . and many colors of plastic plates as well. I stand for a few minutes, staring at the options. Is paper or plastic [...]

Don’t Dump The Coffee Grounds; Recycle Them

You may not think that there are many uses for used coffee grounds, but there really are. Those grounds can eliminate the need to use a lot of chemicals that aren’t so environmentally friendly. In this guide, you’ll learn some of the most common uses for leftover coffee grounds. -You can use them to freshen [...]

Managing a Home Recycling Plan

Recycling has become a huge part of our society, and everyone should do their part in making sure that our environment is taken care of for future generations.  It will help reserve natural resources and save energy that benefits everything that lives on the planet earth.  We are seeing more and more goods being manufactured [...]

Event Recycling Made Easy With the New ‘Big Bottle Recycler’

Busch Systems, a company founded with a vision of revolutionize recycling, announced today a new recycling container. The ‘Big Bottle Recycler’ is ideal for large outdoor events. The container stands nearly 5 feet tall and resembles a plastic pop bottle. It is attractive, easy to use and can be personalized to any recycling program. The [...]

Stores Helping Consumers Recycle

Have old stuff sitting around that can be recycled but you don’t know where or how to recycle it? A growing number of stores across the US are helping consumers make recycling easier buy offering in store recycling programs for items like old cell phones, batteries, plastic bags, old sneaker, broken computers, compact fluorescent light [...]

Wicker recycling baskets

If your recycling habit is anything like mine, you find that the blue recycle bin gets filled up pretty fast. At least in my home, our recycle bin was over flowing every week and I had bags of recyclables sitting in my kitchen on the floor. I started looking for some type of recycling bin [...]

Tires recycled into playground mulch

The cash for clunkers program that helped many Americans trade in older vehicles for fuel efficent vechicles helped the environment but also created a surplus of tires that could have ended up in trash or landfills across the US. Rubbercycle is helping keep the tires from the trash by recycling them into mulch that can [...]

Recycled cell phones used to assist victims of domestic violence

With half of the world owning and using cell phones, now there is a great way to cash in your old cell phones to help the environment and also victims of domestic violence. Verizon Wireless offers the HopeLine, a program exclusive to Verizon that puts wireless services and equipment to work to assist victims of [...]

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