Reusing boxes for storage is a great recycled material craft
If you think about it, and take a look at your trash and recycling when you are taking it to the curb every week, we use a lot of stuff in a modern lifestyle. Almost everything we buy now is wrapped in some plastic or packaged in a container. While we feel good that we recycle and try to buy items that are packaged in recyclable containers, we still end up with a lot of stuff to recycle.
While we are working on reducing the amount of stuff we have to recycle by buying items that are not packaged, in today’s modern world, that is pretty hard to do. So, we decided to see what we could do on the other end of things, to reuse what we would normally end up throwing into the recycling bin. We started keeping some of the items that we would normally recycle (like cereal boxes, shoe boxes and some plastic containers) to see what we could do with them.
I started looking around and found that there are a bunch of great ideas out there to reuse stuff that is just lying around the house or destined for the recycling bin.
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Plastics like these make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
I was watching a documentary the other day and they talked about something known as the Pacific Garbage Patch or Garbage Island. If you have not heard of it already, the Pacific garbage patch is an area of garbage in the Pacific ocean that sits midway between Hawaii and California. It is currently over 2 times the size of the state of Texas and contains approximately 3.5 million tons of garbage. At that size, it is the Earth’s largest dump and it is growing at an alarming rate. Read more on The Pacific Garbage Patch…
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Once they burn out, dispose of fluorescent bulbs properly
I often get asked by my friends and family what the best way to dispose of compact fluorescent bulbs. Fortunately, CFL’s last much longer than incandescent light bulbs, so you don’t have to worry about them burning out for a while, but eventually they will. Up until recently, the best answer I could provide was to put them in a bucket or some other storage mechanism until recycling fluorescent bulbs became more convenient.
Fortunately, recycling of fluorescent bulbs has become convenient. Read more on Dispose of Fluorescent Bulbs Properly…
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Reduce paper usage to save resources and money
One of the most simple ways that we all can help stop climate change is to reduce paper usage. Reducing the amount of paper you use is not as hard as you may think and does not mean having to change your lifestyle or making sacrifices.
Here are six great, and easy, ways to reduce paper usage and save some trees: Read more on Reduce Paper Usage…
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All of the time while most of us have been alive, American consumerism has been the way of life. Improve your lifestyle. Keep up with the Joneses. Keep buying new stuff. If something breaks, don’t consider the repair or buy new argument, just toss it out and buy a new one.
But, if I can hearken back to my high school and college history courses, it hasn’t always been that way. Read more on American Consumerism…
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The Best Buy TV recycling program helps dispose of old TV's properly
Our old projection LCD TV stopped working a while ago. It wasn’t that old, so we looked into getting it fixed, but the repair was going to cost almost as much as buying a new television. We did not want to just throw the old TV in the trash though, so we spent some time looking into local recycling options. Unfortunately, neither our county nor any adjacent ones offered TV recycling. Read more on Best Buy TV Recycling Program…
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Computer memory recycling can keep old memory like this out of the trash
Recently, I found my laptop running really slowly whenever I had several large applications open at the same time. I figured it may be because my laptop did not have enough memory, so I started looking to see if I could upgrade the memory in my particular laptop. A few quick Google searches showed me that I could and that it would only cost me around $15 to upgrade. I was sold, so I ordered a new stick of RAM memory.
When the memory arrived, I popped open my laptop and installed it and it worked beautifully. However, I now had a stick of memory that I no longer needed and I had no idea what to do with it. Read more on Trade in Memory…
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