Green Talk is getting a lot of interest from Jezebel’s article. “I Sold My Panties Online and My Mom Found Out.” I swear I never wrote an underwear recycling article, although it would be interesting. It took awhile for me to figure out why everyone was coming to the site from the Panty article. So, [...]
The first of the year some how invokes that “must “declutter feeling.” Is it being indoor? A new year? Who know. All I do know is my pantry is the bane of my existence. Especially the shelves that contain the vitamins. I swear they grow expontentially. And no, Suzanne Sommers doesn’t live with me. However, [...]
The second of the most popular post on Green Talk is ”How to Recycle your Blue Jeans.” For good reason, since according to a 2008 On Earth article, 450 million jeans are purchased in the US each year. Besides all of my other suggestions of what to do with your unwanted jeans, add this one: Aeropostale [...]
Alkaline Batteries Are you like me? Have a bunch of household alkaline batteries sitting in a dusty section of your garage since you can’t bear to throw them out? You know. The ones that power your radios, flashlights, and other electronic equipment. If you don’t live in California, which mandates that all batteries must be recycled, [...]
How many of you have torn towels or blankets? Do you throw them away or use them as rags? The other day I noticed that one of the blankets that my kids use had a huge hole in it. Large enough that their entire bodies could shimmy through it. Sewing it back together was not [...]
Do you have a bunch of broken, awful looking, glued together, overly chipped plates and saucers around the house? How about some of your children’s ceramic work that is really cute because you love them, but you have no idea what you are going to do with it? (Parents, don’t shoot me. I have four kids [...]
With the weather becoming warmer, I noticed the increase in bicycle riding. Whether people bike for exercise, recreation or commuting to work, over 26 million bicycles were purchased in the United States in 2005 alone. In 2007, more than twice the number of bikes were produced in the world than cars. To the tune [...]
I absolutely love Freecycle, which is an online community where people can giveaway their once loved possession to someone who can use them. But what I don’t love about my online community is the barrage of emails that I get from everyone’s posts. Your email box could be flooded in just a day (or maybe [...]
Welcome Guest poster, Paul Leonard of recyclingNJ to provide us with an exciting update of how his website is impact recycling efforts in New Jersey. Although his site is New Jersey based, many of his links can be used through the US. As many of you will be aware, the average US citizen throws away 1655 [...]
Are you the crafty type? A person who can take ordinary trash and make it into something jaw droppingly awesome? Or maybe you are a wanna be like me who just admires from afar, but could never put craftiness into action. Recently, I got to drool like an adolescent adoring Justin Bieber while flipping through [...]
