ecoble.com - 4/27/2009
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Plastic bottles are produced, consumed, and trashed each and every day. Of the 28 billion bottles of water bought by Americans each year, more than 22 billion sit in landfills. Only 13% of our plastic bottles are recycled.
Those statistics on plastic bottles ...
New Ways To Recycle
5minutesforgoinggreen.com 3/4/2009 — Most curbside recycling programs and collection centers accept a very specific and somewhat limited set of items. The usual suspects are #1 and #2 plastics, paper of all kinds, and aluminum cans. Sometimes corrugated cardboard, metal food cans, and ...
Kids Recycle!
kidsrecycle.org 3/11/2009 — Our Kids Recycle! Site Received this award! Editor's Choice Top 5% in K-12 Education
Recycle Your Couch with Slipcovers: Recycle This
thebudgetecoist.com 3/17/2009 — If you’re anything like me, you’ll jump at any offer to get free stuff for your home. I hate to think of usable things being thrown out. Consequently, my house is furnished with all sorts of second-hand furniture – from family hand-me-downs to junk shop finds. I even spotted an ...
NEW! RECYCLE LOVE ORGANIC TEE :
tinyrevolutionary.com 2/3/2009 — Organic Recycle Love Tee You recycle your newspapers, your plastic bottles and your tin cans but do you recycle the most important natural resource on earth? That's right, it's L-O-V-E! Bigger than nuclear, cleaner than coal, love is what powers our ...
Batteries: Recycle This
thebudgetecoist.com 2/25/2009 — There are several strategies for how to deal with batteries. The smartest strategy, from both an environmental as well as a budget perspective, is to use rechargeable batteries. If you're not using rechargeable batteries already, you should consider doing so. What's really nice, is you'll never ...
Plastic Gift Cards: Re-use, Recycle, Speak Out!
fakeplasticfish.com 3/6/2009 — I've been carrying around two plastic movie theater gift cards for over a year. Gifts from co-workers, they are much-appreciated because they represent gifts of experiences (movies) rather than more stuff. The fact that I still have them simply means I need to get out more. But the cards ...
Reuse, recycle, reshred
supereco.com 3/16/2009 —
You know a trend has legs (or in this case, wheels) when people start coming up with new words to describe a catchy new design concept. For skateboard lovers, that word is "skurniture"—it's the name of just one of the companies that's repurposing recycled skateboards ...
Get Paid to Recycle – Recycle Bank
easyecoblog.com 10/13/2009 — How do you get people to recycle more? Pay them! RecycleBank gives points for recycling products. Turn these points into rewards at over 1500 local and National retailers. They record the amount your recycle through the use of a special recycling bin. The service is only available in about ...
5 things you should always recycle
mnn.com 24 days ago — Chances are you're already recycling the cans, bottles, and paper that get picked up at the curb, but what about all that other stuff that's lurking in your drawers or closets - like outdated gadgets and dead batteries - that you're not sure how to ...
15 Every Day Items You Can Recycle for Cash
ecosalon.com 9/1/2009 — Your principal incentive to recycle? That one’s a no-brainer: the environment, of course. But, it doesn’t just have to be a green act of good will; it can add a little extra cash to your wallet as well. Recycling for money sure ...