Articles tagged “Waste Disposal”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Reuse and Recycle Answering Machines By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Apr 9 2009 Some of the technology from twenty years ago seems so outmoded. It's like a novel archeological find. What was our society like twenty some odd years ago? People were singing goofy jingles into their answering machine. How far we've come. I'd better go write something silly on my Facebook status. + READ MORE

10 Common Things That Should Not Be Flushed By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Apr 9 2009 Toilets often get used as a trash can. We've all been to our local stores and have seen the signs that read "Do Not Flush These Items." Mostly, the businesses put these signs up so people won't damage and clog their toilets. At home, however, you may be tempted to use the toilet as a trash can. After all, it's your toilet. If it breaks, you're the one who is responsible. I don't know why you'd be so cavalier with your own toilet, but in times of laziness all things are possible. + READ MORE

Mulch with Newspapers By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Apr 7 2009 Reuse, in most cases, is a fair bit greener than recycling. That's not to say recycling isn't green. It's green and it is awesome. But reusing an item significantly reduces the overall footprint of the item. It takes energy to recycle but much less than the energy it takes to create anew. + READ MORE

This is the Week to Recycle Your Cell Phone By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Apr 3 2009 Earth Month is chalk full of ways to help the planet, and one way is as easy as uncovering that cell phone sitting in the back of the junk drawer and sending it in for recycling. + READ MORE

How to Keep Bears Out of Your Picnic Basket When Camping By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 3 2009 Yogi Bear was obsessed with picnic baskets. He was always getting in trouble with the Ranger for scarfing down picnic baskets full of camper's food. Even though Yogi is a fictional character and wears a hat, his story isn't too far from the truth. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Just Say No By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Apr 3 2009 We are not consulting Nancy Reagan on this one. Rather, it's our friend Jenn from Tiny Choices who explains: "The next time you're offered something you really don't need, and which would very likely end up in the trash bin, just say 'No, thanks.' + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Organic Waste By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Apr 2 2009 The gang at Waste.nl describe organic waste as "a major component of municipal solid waste. Most originates from household waste but commercial, institutional and industrial waste can also contain significant proportions of organic waste e.g. market waste." + READ MORE

Are you Auction Savvy? By Team Planet Green IN Wrecklamation Apr 1 2009 Jodi Murphy from Wrecklamation Nation is one determined demolition auctioneer! She finds homes doomed that are doomed for the wrecking ball and auctions off the reusable materials left inside. In this quiz, guess how much Jodi got for each item.... + READ MORE

How to Recycle Water Filter Cartridges By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Mar 30 2009 Growing up I drank from a farm's well. You want bad-tasting H20? Try Iowa well water. Now I'm drinking LA tap and loving it. But for discerning palates out there, tap water has a "taste." A lot of people use a filter to get rid of the tap taste. Filters aren't as wasteful as bottled water, but they do generate some waste in the form of water filter cartridges. + READ MORE

How to Dispose of Your Campfire Waste By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 26 2009 There is nothing like a roaring fire to sit around on a camping trip. You might swap ghost stories or speak of the brave deeds performed by your ancestors. You can also roast puffy marshmallows on sharpened twigs and burn your tongue when you eat those marshmallows. Whatever you do around your campfire is your business, but how you dispose of it is everyone's business. + READ MORE

Get to Know EPA's Most Wanted Fugitives By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Mar 23 2009 Scanning the faces on the EPA's Fugitives website, you'll find a crop of criminals that would look right at home in any B-movie police lineup scene. Scowling, old Mafioso types to your garden variety street thug, the mug shots on display seem the very caricatures of hardened crooks. But these perps have made the list for committing very unique crimes. + READ MORE

9 Reuses for Human Hair By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 23 2009 Did you know that 200,000 pounds of hair goes into the landfill each day? That's a lot of hair wasting our space. Hair is a naturally growing, rapidly replenishable resource. It could do us some good to find something useful to do with the stuff, besides throw it in the trash. Here are 8 suggestions. + READ MORE

Throw Your Chewing Gum in the Trash By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Mar 19 2009 Gum doesn't biodegrade. Once gum is made, it is gum forever. This doesn't mean that gum is going to cover the surface of our earth by 2047. Gum is just a nagging environmental problem. It's litter. + READ MORE

What To Do with Leftovers from Juicing By Heather Sperling IN Food & Health Mar 18 2009 No doubt, fresh juice is a great idea for you (its healthy and alive!) and the environment (no plastic or glass bottles!). Nearly every member of the fruit and vegetable families can be shoved through a juicer to be turned, with great success, into easily downed, highly nutritious juice (just don't mess with bananas—they'll clog the machine). + READ MORE

Recycling Threatened by Recession—What You Can Do to Help By David DeFranza IN Home & Garden Mar 16 2009 Every week or so three quarters of Americans perform a green good deed and send their recycling off to a processing plant. If you are one of them, and you should be, you probably imagine that your used cardboard, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and junk mail is turned into new consumer products. Lately, however, it is becoming increasingly likely that these highly-usable materials are simply transported to a warehouse and put into storage. + READ MORE

Cut Food Waste by Using Perfect Portions in Your Cooking By Brian Merchant IN Food & Health Mar 16 2009 I know, I know, thanks to the ol' economic downturn you've found yourself staying in and cooking way more than usual.You simply plug in the kind of food you'll be serving (vegetables, meats, fish, pasta, bread, etc, are all accounted for), how many people you plan on serving (it even differentiates between children and... + READ MORE

Eat Family Style While On Vacation By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 13 2009 Restaurants produce a lot of waste—especially in the department of food. That's why it's smart to bring your own reusable containers to restaurants so you can save your food for later and bypass the typical styrofoam to-go containers simultaneously. But when you're on vacation, you don't always want to save your food for later. Most vacationers have saved up their money so that, for a few days a year, they can enjoy that money. + READ MORE

Help Stop the Tidal Wave of Trash By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2009 We have all heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and some have even sailed into the ocean to explore it firsthand. But the problem, it turns out, is even larger than a centralized net of trash twice the size of Texas. The entire world is threatened by a "tidal wave of trash." + READ MORE

Use Water Purification Tablets While Camping By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 11 2009 You might be tempted to bring bottled water on your next camping trip or backpacking adventure. It makes sense. Drinking water from a mountain stream can be potentially hazardous to your health. Bottled water isn't very good for the environment. What can you do? + READ MORE

Green Your Brain: What's the Surprising Number One Material Clogging Up Landfills? By Brian Merchant IN Go For The Green Mar 10 2009 We all know that there are plenty of not-so lovely mounds of land littered around our nation that are filled with, well, litter. Picture a landfill. Go ahead, do it—what do you imagine filling it up? Rusted car parts, dirty... + READ MORE