Recent Posts Tagged With 'recycle'

• TerraCycle turns your Frito-Lay Wrappers into Chic Tote Bags

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 12:07 in fundraising, recycling, recycle, terracycle, frito lay handbag

  When I was a kid, I used to love putting Fritos in my peanut butter sandwich. I was so addicted to Fritos that I ate them through college.  My usual college lunch was a tuna sandwich, Fritos, and a diet coke.  Real healthy, right? Heck, I was young...

• Swap Mamas: A Mama’s Very Own Swapping, Socializing Site

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 14:16 in children, swapping, recycle, household products, socializing, ning groups, swap mama, swapping and kids clothes

  When you think of swapping, organizations such as Freecycle, Craiglist, and other names come to mind.  Well, here is a new one to add to the Spring cleaning list…Swap Mamas, a new social networking swap site geared towards swapping everything ...

• Clorox and Preserve Partnership: Recycling Brita Filters

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 21:23 in recycling, recycle, plastic, clorax and recycling brita filters, take back the filter campaign, preserve and gimme 5, recycline and gimme 5 campaign

  Photo by permission of Beth Terry A couple of months ago, I wrote about Clorox’s  FilterForGood campaign which encourages people to buy a Brita water filtration pitcher rather than buy plastic bottles.  I felt their marketing campaign was a...

• Recycle Your Crayons Or Make Your Own Crayon Art

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 16:32 in children, recycling, recycle, school projects, recycle crayons, crayonbin, crazy crayons, donate crayons, make new crayons out of old ones

    Photo by Shawn Ford  Millions of broken crayons are thrown away every day. Since they are petroleum based, it will take centuries for them to biodegrade.  Did you ever stop to think that you could recycle or reuse those old crayons?  Here are s...

• 18 Ways to Cure the Unwanted Gift Blues

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 11:56 in gifts, holidays, ebay, recycling, swapping, recycle, freecycle, craigs list, consignment, bartering, yard sales, exchange gifts

  Photo by permission of Kasia It’s bright and shiny and often carries an equally bright ribbon.  You open the box and you start to sweat when you look into the box.  It can only be described as (shuddering…) the UNWANTED Gift.   Maybe ...

• Save our Ancient Trees: Buy and Use Recycled Paper

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 22:14 in environment, Paper, recycle, household products, recycled paper, informed, recycled toliet paper, destruction of the forests and paper, paper industry and recycling, recyclable products, secret life of trees, secret life videos

  Video by Informed as part of the Secret Life series Do you know the secret life of paper? Do you know that how many trees are cut down in the name of paper you use for the toliet, copy machine, or every day use?  Informed, a not for profit has creat...

• Eating at Wendy’s Could Have Green Benefits

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 11:03 in gardening, trash, garbage, recycle, seedlings, reuse, landfills, readers' reuse tips, terrarium

  How many of us catch lunch or dinner when we can? Are you driving up to the drive-in window more than you like to due to a hectic job, children with multiple activities or caring for family members? Does the person at the other end of the microphone...