After you’ve finished celebrating Halloween, don’t throw your carved pumpkins in the trash or haul them to the landfill, compost those scary fellows (unless, of course, you are going to be turning them into great tasting pies or muffins).
Pumpkins will break down quickly to provide great compost for your yard, supplying valuable nutrients for your lawn or garden. To get [ Read More → ]
After you’ve finished celebrating Halloween, don’t throw your carved pumpkins in the trash or haul them to the landfill, compost those scary fellows (unless, of course, you are going to be turning them into great tasting pies or muffins).
Pumpkins will break down quickly to provide great compost for your yard, supplying valuable nutrients for your lawn or garden. To get [ Read More → ]
OAKLAND, CA — Starbucks is using New York City as a testing ground for recycling its ubiquitous coffee cups. If successful, it could mean the 3 billion cups it uses each year could go to recycling bins instead of landfills.
During a nine-week test, which started in mid-September and runs through November, 86 Starbucks locations in New York City will [ Read More → ]
#1. Start Sustainable.
Sustainability is the ability of an eco system to maintain ecological processes, functions, and productivity into the future. You can use products that are sustainable, and are always replenishing themselves, such as fast growing bamboo.
#2. Recycle everything.
* Don’t stop at recycling your plastic bottles and paper bags. In fact, one billion bottles of water are transported around [ Read More → ]
Recycling is important, but first and foremost: Use less whenever possible. Don’t think you can’t make a difference by recycling… recycling just one aluminum can saves the amount of energy required to run a TV for three hours! Before committing to recycling, here are a few, fun facts that TGM Associates would like to share that will help you understand [ Read More → ]
1) Where running out of landfill/garbage dump space.
2) It makes good sense to recycle instead of using new materials.
3) It takes less energy to recycle than create new products from raw materials.
4) Alot of the products require petroleum, and we have to import oil from places that hate us, or will use the money against us.
5) It creates jobs in [ Read More → ]
Electronics items of all kinds are increasingly popular and increasingly common. Computers, music players, game players, monitors, keyboards, cell phones, and other similar electronic gadgets are more than just common. They are pervasive. Everyone has them.
Consumers are driven to purchase electronics for various reasons. Some buyers are motivated by the coolness factor. Some like to be seen by others as [ Read More → ]
If the clothing is 100% cotton, it’s COMPOSTABLE! I’ve been reading all about composting on instructables.com and we’re making our own composter today! I’ve been saving the legs from cutoff jeans (cut up like crude confetti) and even dryer lint to use as some of the dry matter in our compost. Polyester and rayon clothing won’t work for composting – [ Read More → ]
Log making is becoming increasingly popular amongst people wanting to not only save money on their heating costs but also recycle all that waste paper and card that accumulates at home.
Log making involves turning all that recycled waste card and paper into burnable logs that can be used as fuel for the open fire or wood burning stove
– getting rid [ Read More → ]
As you know, we use various kinds of materials for the manufacturing millions of products. These materials include pure metals, alloys, plastic, rubber, etc, which themselves have different properties due to the composition of the chemicals added to achieve certain material properties like color, strength, etc.
The highest degree of difficulty is encountered in sorting the materials while recycling. Like stated [ Read More → ]
Advantages:
Recycling is good! It’s good for the environment, it’s good for practicing green-living, and plastic is bad for the environment because it takes hundreds of years to biodegrade. (which means it cannot just disappear into its surroundings)
We can use it for other stuff, we have less waste on the planet, which makes more room for living, less money is spent [ Read More → ]
