Most people are making an attempt at living green. That's comendable, but what do greenies do with their egg cartons? If you have a family, you end up with more cartons than you know what to do with.
Here's a few tips on how to reuse/recycle your egg cartons.
A new brand of vodka helps the consumer lead an eco-friendly lifestyle.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been cultivating a list of actions that I can take to make my footprint even lighter, and also documenting the changes that I’ve already made. I was pretty proud of myself. And feeling quite up-beat about the future of our species. Then I started looking around me.
Integrate the spirit of Earth Day into your daily routine! Celebrate No Trash Week by trying to make no garbage for an entire week! Check out the website for ideas to help you succeed.
Starting on April 22nd, teachers will be able to bring used Elmer’s bottles and sticks to the nearest Wal-Mart to have them reused, while also bringing awareness about the importance of the 3 Rs to classrooms across the United States and Canada.
They have also launched other contests and projects for students and teachers to take part in.
When I remodeled my kitchen, I saved all the old wood, nails, and other materials. Here's the story about how I transformed these old, used materials into a homemade masterpiece.
GreenU is a community structure with the motto of reduces, reuse and recycle for the entire community. Its’s function is to serve as a very visible and very recognizable place to abandon your trash and deposit your recyclables.
Think about everything you throw away. Can something else be done with it? Can it be recycled, or can someone else make good use of it?
So don’t throw away or simply burn old clothes, books, kid’s toys, or even furniture, but instead give them to your local charity shop instead. You will be helping other people and the environment too.
Here are three great websites that allow you to donate your unwanted items (thereby avoiding filling up a landfill) and also lets you get free items that other people no longer want. Check them out...
This is a great idea for anyone who uses Brita or other brand water filter pitchers on a regular basis. While granulated activated carbon may not be adequate for every situation, it will certainly apply and appeal to many & helps keep waste out of the landfill and considerably reduces consumer costs. This article tells you how to refill a cartridge for 1/12th the cost of a new one.
Environmental issues and eco-friendly business practices are important to us at JV Media Design. Several years ago we made a conscious effort to, "reduce, reuse, & recylce" and we believe that it's not very difficult for other businesses to do the same.
According to the UN, more than half of the world will be living with water shortages in the next 50 years.One solution to the growing problem is reclaiming and recycling water instead of disposing it into oceans and rivers. Using new technology, agrowing number of communities in the U.S. are starting to reuse and recycle water.
More than 80 billion return envelopes are sent through the US mail each year in direct mailings such as credit-card statements, utility bills and other at an estimated cost of 1 billion pounds in greenhouse gas emissions and more than 71 trillion BTUs of energy. A company has come up with cost-effective, simple-to-use solution that eliminates the need for a separate reply mail envelope and helps to conserve precious resources.
Like many scientific discoveries, this one was an accident as well.While maybe not as exciting as the Chernobyl discovery, not visually appealing as The Colombia Experiment or as lofty as The God Theory,The Trashoponics is an important discovery that brings mankind one step closer toward freedom and self-reliance.
Up until today, it's been illegal to use gray water (water from bathing or washing dishes) to water your lawn and trees. But lawmakers now say they will change that...
