Recent Posts Tagged With 'recycling'

• 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...

• Elmer’s Glue Sticks and Bottle Recycling Program & Giveaway

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 in children, recycling, glue, giveaways & discounts, elmer glue

  Check out the giveaway below! If you have kids, you have Elmer’s glue in the form of glue sticks or glue bottle.  My kids are notorious for leaving off the glue stick caps or using way too much glues from the glue bottles.  I can’t recy...

• Spring Cleaning: Remove the Clutter

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 23:11 in recycling, household products, spring cleaning, repurpose, consignment shops, home decor & accessories, remvove clutter

  Photo by Julie Vasquez This month topic for the Green Mom’s carnival is Spring cleaning over at Jenn of Tiny Choices.  With Spring right around the corner, here is your time to fall in love with your home again by removing the clutter that hides i...

• 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...

• Sick of those Yellow Pages?

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 11:41 in recycling, yellow pages, household products, white pages, recycling paper, paperlesspetition.org

  Photo by Frank Hebbert You know the saying, “let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages?”  My fingers only click keyboards these days when I am searching for a telephone number.  They hardly ever thumb through my countless...

• MRM Establishes Nationwide Electronic Recycling Program

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 23:46 in electronics, recycling, toshiba, mrm, recycling electronics, recycling televisions, fcc and ditigal television, nationwide recycling program, panasonic and sharp and nationwide recycling program, recycling locations and televisions, responsible recycling and televisions

  On February 17, 2009, all United States broadcasting stations will stop broadcasting in analog airwaves and convert to digital broadcasting.  Thus, all analog TVs that are not hooked up to a converter box will no longer work. For more information t...

• PlanetReuse Brokers Salvage Building Materials to help Build Green

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 00:50 in green, recycling, building materials, architects and reuse materials, brokering salvaged materials, building materials and landfills, disposing of building materials, green building and salvaged materials, keeping materials out of landfills, leed point and reuse, leed points and salvaged materials, material exchanges

  Photo courtesy of PlanetReuse Building green is my passion. Do you think I became a LEED AP1 for the heck of it? Although I may not talk about green building products as much on the website as many of my green building aficionados would like, it is a...

• 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 ...

• Recycle your Old Blue Jeans

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 15:21 in recycling, clothing & accessories, crafts and jeans, handbag and jeans, making sandals out of jeans, old blue jeans, recycling blue jeans, recycling jeans, redesigning jeans, remaking jeans, torn blue jeans

  Photo by permission of Ben Donley What’s blue, made out of old recycled blue jeans, itch-free, and keeps you warm during the winter and cool in the summer?  No, not your favorite blue sweater or blanket!  Bonded Logic’s Ultra-touch insu...

• Nightline Feature EnviroMom’s One Trash Can A Month Challenge

  Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 20:32 in recycling, enviromom's trash challenge, jeanne roy, nightline & enviromom, nightline & trash challenge, one trash can a month challenge, recycling and reducing trash

  Think how many bags of trash you send to the garbage a month. How many? One, Two, Six? Can you take the challenge being proposed by EnviroMom to reduce your daily waste to only one Trash can a month? Watch the above video on ABC’s Nightline ...

• 60 Minutes Reveals The Ugly Side of Recycling

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 10:15 in electronics, recycling, 60 minutes, 60 minutes and recycling of electronics, basal action network, china and electronic problems, china and recycling electronics, recycling of electronics, third world countries and electronic disposal, third world countries and scrap metal

  Watch CBS Videos Online Remember when you were a kid, and your mother always told you before you went out to make sure you wore clean  underwear without any holes?  Why, you would ask thinking that who would know .  Her response was always, “...

• A Fire Department Leading the Way to a Greener Lifestyle

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 15:39 in recycling, household products

  Some of the Hunky Firemen that make this Auction happen. September is known for apple picking, back to school and the Harding, NJ Fire Department’s annual auction.  Huh, you reply?  What is the Harding Fire Department Auction?  Well, if you...

• Clorox’s Oxymoron Role in Reducing Water Bottle Usage

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 20:56 in recycling, plastic, brita filters, clorax and recycling brita filters, recycle brita filters, recycling brita water filters, reducing water bottle usage, take back the filter campaign

  Clorox, the North American parent of Brita, is urging Americans to take the pledge to reduce their use of plastic water bottles via their Filter For Good website, in partnership with Nalgene.  They have several commercials depicting our love affair ...

• The Junk-Free Thirty Day Challenge

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 17:34 in recycling, swapping, household products, junk, green tips, good for the earth, cleaning up junk, cleaning up stuff, giveaway junk, giving away junk, giving away stuff, recycling junk

  Your mission if you dare to accept it (Mission Impossible music, please) is a thirty day promise to junk-free your house. It is your challenge, and therefore your decision how far you want to rid yourself of your junk. Why am I issuing this challenge...

• Chicago is the Green Place to Be Where Fashion Blooms

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 01:08 in chicago, recycling, recycled fashions, fashion designers and recycled materials, michigan avenue and recycled fashions, where fashion blooms

  See my 3 Rs dress show below! This summer we are visiting colleges, and have seen about 9 colleges. If you have little ones, the years go by really fast. It seemed like yesterday when he was walking to now he is going to be off on his own. (A te...

• Home Depot Offers Free Recycling for Burnt-Out CFL

  Posted on Friday July 4th, 2008 at 22:02 in recycling, cfl recycling, home depot and cfl recycling, recycling cfls

  What are some of my pet peeves? They are as follows: People who urinate on the toilet seats and don’t clean up after themselves, CFLs recycling, people who do not call you back, and plastic pots recycling. Okay 2 green pet peeves and 2 annoying pet...

• Rebounces Repurposes Old Tennis Balls to Give Them a New Bounce

  Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 21:46 in recycling, grant garland, greening tennis, rebounces, recycling tennis balls, repurpose tennis balls

  With summer fastly approaching, thinking about dusting off the old tennis racket and getting in a few games of tennis? You and about 25 million others according to a 2005 study done by the USTA and the Tennis Industry Association (TIA).1 So, you a...

• Nike Turns Sneaker Love into Playground Hubs

  Posted on Monday February 18th, 2008 at 21:27 in clothing, recycling, playgrounds, 's programs, basketball courts, donation of gently worn shoes, nike grind

  The world loves sneakers. How many of you have more than one pair? Sneakers help you do amazing things. Do you think Michael Jordan can jump that high without his Air Jordans? Even Superman had red sneakers to help him take off. Er. Maybe those w...

• Give Your Old Cell Phone a Second Life or a Proper Burial

  Posted on Monday February 11th, 2008 at 21:07 in recycling, landfills, es, cell phone donations, cell phone fundraisers, chemicals leaching from landfills, electronic recycling, reuse of cell phones

  Photo of my collected cell phones from my cell phone fundraiser Do you change your cell phone as much as your underwear? I hope not! I swear there are some people I know that must have a new phone every time I see them. Many of these compulsive suffe...

• Used Office Chairs, Comfy is Now Spelled G-R-E-E-N

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 14:28 in furniture, recycling

  Would you want to sit on this chair for 8 hours a day?   Do you sit at your desk for endless hours and at the end of the day every part of your body hurts? It is not age. It is what we are sitting in. I know since I have been [...]...

• Is Your Electronic Waste Being Dumped in Third World Countries?

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 13:45 in recycling, ban, electronic devices, electronic waste, donations of computers, e-stewardship, electronic takeback coalition, epa plug-in partners, reusing computers

  Photo by permission of Daniel R. Blume As technology advances, I have seen more monitors, computers, televisions, and other electronic equipment left at the end of driveways or in trash cans waiting to hitch a ride to the nearest landfill. According...

• So little Time, So Many Green Finds

  Posted on Thursday January 24th, 2008 at 23:09 in recycling, unique, household products, eco friendly, building products, internet green searches

  So many days I spend hours on the internet looking for a needed item in my house. I know I am not the only one who does this. Today, the big search was for a wall display for plates that I bought through an antique dealer. I figured since most wall...

• GreenDisk, the Answer to Recycling CDs and DVDs

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 03:13 in cell phones, recycling, dds, electronic media, jewel cases, reusing cds, reycled new cds

     Some of the contents of my GreenDisk Technotrash Can Do you remember when you use to get those AOL free disks?  They would come in your mail, in magazines, and even with your toilet paper.  (Just kidding)  Just think of how many CDs and DVDs ...

• Read More, Consume Less

  Posted on Tuesday January 8th, 2008 at 23:06 in global warming, climate change, recycling, trees, swapping, household products, renting

  Photo by Cathy Stanley-Erickson by permission Could your reading appetite be causing greenhouse emissions and the degradation of our forests? Reading is a wonderful pastime, but if you are like many people, your credit card is worn from the amount ...

• Don’t Trash The Earth! Get Cash Instead!

  Posted on Tuesday November 20th, 2007 at 22:48 in recycling, environmental websites

  Photo by permission. Founder Brett Mosley,taking apart broken iPods. Emma Lazarus said in her poem which is engraved on the pedestal of the Statute of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” ...

• Recycling Junk Mail–Is It Enough To Save Our Trees?

  Posted on Monday November 19th, 2007 at 01:29 in recycling, household products, junk mail

  Photo by Max Cook by permission ‘Tis the season for the onslaught of holiday parties, gift buying, and yes, the dreaded holiday catalog barrage. I don’t know about your mailbox, but during the holiday season, it is filled to the gills with tons o...

• 18 Easy Green Steps Without Spending A Dime!

  Posted on Friday November 9th, 2007 at 02:55 in recycling

  Photo by Cathyse97 by permission under the Creative Commons license. Everywhere you read today there are green sections in magazines, television spots, and in newspapers. Even NBC has gone green! Everyone is giving you their top ten to fifty steps to...

• 15 Tips to Become A Neighborhood “Greeny”

  Posted on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at 00:34 in recycling, gardening, household products

  Photo by Megan under permission of the Creative Commons License 2.0 The most constant complaint I hear as to why people can not live a greener lifestyle is it is too inconvenient or just too hard. Believe it or not, just right outside your door are ...

• Swap ’til You Drop on Swaptree!

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 21:32 in recycling, household products, environmental websites, shopping website

  Photo courtesy of Swaptree.com How many times have you heard, “Mom, I am bored of this game? Buy me a new one!” Perhaps, you’ve just bought another book (again), finished it, put it on the shelf to never open it again. You are tired of sp...