Recent Posts Tagged With 'recycle'

• A greener way to brush your teeth

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 12:00 in recycling, trash, waste, recycle, toothbrush, toothbrushes

  When it was time to throw away my toothbrush, I stopped to consider what to do with my failing brush. I am a vicious, unrelenting brusher. Always have been. So a toothbrush life span is short in my household. I......

• Is it recyclable: Toothbrushes?

  Posted on Sunday January 27th, 2008 at 14:15 in recycling, garbage, waste, recycle, toothbrush, toothbrushes, landfill

  The bristles started falling out of my toothbrush this week, so it's time to switch. It is definitely made of plastic, but it's completely unclear whether I can recycle my toothbrush. My recycling website doesn't mention toothbrushes anywhere. Appare...

• 7 Ways to Reuse Wire Hangers

  Posted on Saturday January 19th, 2008 at 12:30 in recycling, recycle, reuse, recyclable, wire hangers, dry cleaning, hangers

  Yesterday, I asked you what to do with my ginormous stack of wire hangers, accumulated from years of dry cleaning runs. Turns out wire hangers aren't exactly the hideous scourge I thought they were. They are, after all, made of......

• When you can't recycle, try freecycle

  Posted on Saturday January 5th, 2008 at 13:23 in project, recycling, garbage, waste, recycle, freecycle

  Two weeks ago, I pushed our computer back further behind the desk to make the workspace under the desk more aesthetically pleasing. The unintended consequence was that the mouse and keyboard cables no longer stretched fully over to the workspace.......

• Why should we recycle?

  Posted on Wednesday November 28th, 2007 at 12:36 in recycling, waste, recycle

  I know that this is a mundane question for many people; the benefits so obvious that they want to laugh at anybody silly enough to ask it. Truth is though, 23% of Americans don’t recycle anything. A full third of......