Some of you may remember that a month ago I canceled trash pickup at my house. This was for several reasons, two of which are the price of pickup and the lack of maintenance/pollution from the Waste Management trucks. When we did have trash pickup, we were disposing of between 2-3 bags of trash [...]
When it’s time to pull that old carpet up and either replace it or go for the wood/concrete look, what can you do with it? Should you just throw it in the landfill like everyone used to do? Nope – you should recycle it! According to the Carpet America Recovery Effort, nearly [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about recycling and it hits close to home for us. See, our town does not recycle plastic – at all. Not even a little tiny amount. Most people here throw any and all plastic in with their regular trash, which then heads out to the landfill to hang [...]
Now, I cannot promise they will stop, but it’s certainly worth a shot, no? I wrote about my frustration with the multiple phone books that kept showing up at my door and my inability to make them stop before, but I was just told about Yellow Pages Goes Green, which is trying to get [...]
