Subtly talking about more ecologically sound practices, such as reducing waste, recycling, and using more eco-friendly products is often enough to spurn the thoughts in others. You can exert healthy peer pressure to do what is right.
How do I recycle my CFL Light Bulb?
My compact fluorescent bulbs are still going strong over two years into their use, so I have not tried out the new recycling program at Home Depot, nor have I gone to look. However, it seems as simple as dropping them off in a bin, perhaps with some [...]
Busting yet another move with the compostable products commentary, has anyone seen corn-based biodegradable plastics? I have seen some plastic items made of corn product, and it feels just like normal, petroleum-based plastic.
In fact, I have acquired some corn-based drinking straws. They’re all labeled, “compostable,” but while I don’t doubt the fact that [...]
It biodegrades! These cups break down in the landfill! These plates won’t look like plates in a thousand years. That Styrofoam you used to use will still be around for hundreds if not thousands of years!
Well that’s just great. So we’re growing trees, bamboo, and potatoes, to make paper plates and [...]
What seems to be the reason people in the middle class all seem to ubiquitously have particle board, metal, wire, plastic, and otherwise cheap material shelving is that it is so affordable. Wal-Mart, Target, Ikea, and others make it all too easy to find shelves that fit any situation in one’s home and to [...]
Here’s another item I saved from the forgotten shelves for my own daily use: shoes! Actually, I have two pairs of shoes I bought at thrift stores, both of which looked like they could have just as easily been sitting in the box at Macy’s. Both brands, actually, are carried by Macy’s and [...]
We all see the all-too familiar recycling symbol on recycling receptacles in buildings, larger blue bins on the street, and many have makeshift, unlabeled recycling cans at home.
But what happens to recyclables once they are picked up to be taken to the recycling center? We dutifully carry our items a little farther to make [...]
What do I do with my old electronics? I know the feeling. You have something new but the older version, the one you replaced, still works. Let’s say you replaced your ink jet printer with a laser jet printer all-in-one, printer, copier, scanner, and fax. But your old printer still works and [...]
Sure, more and more electronics have built-in batteries, charged with a multitude of chargers with distinct prongs, so that most of us now have a collection of tangled charger wires laying around at any available outlet. It seems that for the most part, no two chargers are alike.
But we still use plenty of devices that [...]
The “Saved” Series will include items saved from being discarded in some manner, items doomed to be put into a landfill or closeted away from use. Instead of the potential user of these products buying new, we will show how these products, still with much utility left, are being used to improve one’s envirohuman [...]
