From the category archives:

Recycling

Is Faxing Bad for the Environment?

March 10, 2010

The other day, I received my second unwanted fax from a broadcast advertiser. In my post, “How to Stop Unwanted Faxes,” I gave you the keys on how to stop these faxes from showing up in your fax tray. But as I thought about it more and more, was faxing just plain bad for the [...]

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Recycle Your Jeans at the Gap March 5-14, 2010

March 8, 2010

Photo by permission of Ben Donley
One of my most popular post is “Recycle your Blue Jeans.” I guess I have a lot of jean wearing, need to get rid of old jeans readers. Well, for a limited time, Gap is taking back old jeans as part of the CottontoBluetoGreen.org campaign. The time period is short: March [...]

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Reuse your Greeting Cards to Spread Joy to Others

January 29, 2010

After all the holiday presents have been exchanged, the tree taken down, and the ornaments put away, how many of you still have up your holiday cards laying around? I tend to keep mine up a little longer because I love the festive colors that adorn my mantel.
Usually, I take off the pictures that my [...]

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Are Intuit’s Disk Becoming an E-nusiance?

January 19, 2010

Have you been a recipient of an Intuit’s try me disk? I have receive quite a few especially around tax season, but I never realized so many other people had too. How did I know? When I was cleaning out my My GreenDisk box which was spilling over with computer junk, I noticed quite a few Intuit [...]

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Confessions of an E-Waste Recycleaholic

January 19, 2010

I collect accessory computer waste via my GreenDisk trash can at my children’s school. Okay, I admit it. In fact, truth be told, I have been obsessively collecting electronic accessory waste for 3 1/2 years which includes DVDs, CDs, VHS, and their plastic cases and other assorted goodies. (Read here what GreenDisk recycles.)
Now that you know what [...]

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Clementine Crate Become Nifty Bathroom Storage Container

January 14, 2010

My kids love clementines (okay devour clementines.) So what is the harm with this? Their packaging. They come in a wood crate with a plastic net. I HATE the packaging. I can’t recycle the crate but have been giving them away to be reused. People sure love them.
My cousin uses them to store her arts [...]

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Give Your Loved Sport Equipment and Uniforms a New Home

December 22, 2009

Since I have closed my garden for the winter, I started to look inward at my house which has been neglected during the summer months. As many of my loyal readers know, I am obsessed with gardening, and everything goes on hold until the last vegetable is picked. As I piled my garden equipment back [...]

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Fixing an Old Lamp Bound for the Trash

December 16, 2009

I found an relatively new lamp in a trash pile one day. As you can see, it is quite attractive except for its glaring silver duct taped cord. Heck, one man’s trash is another’s treasure. In my case, a lamp for a needed reading area.
Normally, I would have scooped it up and ran to the [...]

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Builder Dan Phillips’ Philosophy: One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Home

December 2, 2009

Dan Phillips of The Phoenix Commotion is my hero. He builds low income housing made out of salvaged, recycled materials. Recently featured on MSNBC, he talked about how his homes are not a hodgepodge of different materials. Instead his houses are whimsical, thought provoking, and warm.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a complete set of anything [...]

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Shouldn’t America Recycles Day Be Called America Reduce or Reuse Day?

November 16, 2009

Photo courtesy of National Recycling Coalition.
Today is America Recycles Day, which is the only day nationally recognized to encourage people to recycle. For the past eleven years, this date has been celebrated across the country increase awareness of recycling at our home and business. (See here as to events in your area.) As the world [...]