Posts Tagged ‘Recycling’

Top 6 EHI Articles to Reduce Your Paper Use

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Resource Waste Reduction

Here are our top articles to-date on EnviroHumanImpact showing simple steps you can take to reduce your paper use and improve your envirohuman impact.
Print with Less Paper with Firefox Aardvark Extension
Top 5 Tips for Reducing Your Junk Mail Paper Trail
EHI Quick Tip: Use a Credit or Debit Card



A Huge Worm Dump! Awesome!

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Gardening, Household

You know that feeling after a worm takes a huge dump? Awesome!
Actually, let’s talk about many many worms pooping lots of little bits to make a product called, “Worm Poop.” Disgusting? Look for it at your Home Depot!
TerraCycle is a young company started by two Princeton dropouts, Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, [...]



Recycling? More Like Faux-Cycling

By Wesley Joseph • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Recycling

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 [...]



Environ|Mental: Making Excuses vs. Having an Excuse

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Workplace

The Environ|Mentality: There is usually a way to make your consumption less envirohumanly toxic, but there is also usually an available excuse you can make. Overcome that temptation by realizing a little effort goes a long way.

We all have done it: “I’m in too much of a hurry to take my soda can down [...]



Reusable Grocery Bags

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Household, Pollution, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction

Certainly, you could reuse just about any of the grocery bags that make it to your home still in one piece. But usually they do make it without breaking, because it’s common practice to put heavier loads into a double paper or plastic bag.
The amount of waste generated by grocery bags is avoidable by [...]