*Update – For those of you living in the Los Angeles area, a friend emailed me to say that the City of Burbank recycling center takes CD jewel boxes. Not many do, so if you live around there take them in! I received a question from a reader the other day asking what she could [...]
Throughout history, since the dawn of man, we have been a recycling people. We reused anything and everything multiple times before discarding of it – if there was anything left at all. When we were lucky enough to get our hands on something useful, we were careful with it so as to make it last [...]
By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the northern Pacific Ocean. Originally the size of Texas and approaching the size of the Sun, this gargantuan pile of plastic is collected by currents that [...]
For the last couple of years, we have been buying trash bags made from recycled plastic by Seventh Generation, thinking it was the best option to use in our trash can. The plastic has already been used more than once before ending up in the landfill, and we only use about one bag a week [...]
Several readers had emailed to ask about which composter we had bought for our backyard, so I figured I would take a few shots of it to show it off. The one we got is the Envirocycle and so far, it seems to be doing its job pretty well: I put it up on a [...]
Last November, I wrote about a laptop sleeve I had received from act2 – GreenSmart that was made out of 6 recycled 16oz plastic bottles, which I thought was pretty cool: A few weeks ago the people from act2 – GreenSmart were kind enough to send me one of their new products, a vertical messenger [...]
About a month ago or so, the people from Terracycle sent me a box full of their products to try out. I have written about Terracycle before when talking about the lack of plastic recycling here in town, and I have always been envious that I had not thought of their idea – upcycling plastic [...]
