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Today all we hear about is how we have to recycle everything so we can save our environment from danger. But is it truly worth the effort? Well, have a look at this statistic: the average plastic shopping bag takes roughly 1,000 years to entirely decay in a land fill site. A thousand years is quite a long time for only one plastic bag. Imagine the number of bags you go through each year, not only shopping bags but bin liners too. When you multiply that amount by the number of people living in our country, it's a large number. A good idea would be to recycle the bag instead of letting it sit in the landfill slowly rotting. A lot of things can be recycled such as shopping bags being used to make clothing and old tires being used in building children's playgrounds. Almost anything can be reused. ...more
Recycling things is incredibly important in relation to protecting our world, but there are things which can be recycled that folks do not usually think about. The volume of items nowadays which can actually be recycled are immense, but the best part is you may also have the ability to earn some cash by recycling some of these items. While recycling can in fact wind up taking you some time to do properly, the point that you can make a small amount of cash by doing it should compensate for that fact. Below you're going to find a number of these items that folks throw away that can in fact end up being recycled for money. ...more
onventional cotton farming is well known to consume large quantities ofinsecticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers. Despite this chemical onslaught (or perhaps because of it), America’s cotton fields are now being overrun by a plant called pigweed. ...more
Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its 2009 data for municipal solid waste generation and recycling. Municipal solid waste (MSW) consists of all the trash and garbage we give to our local trash haulers. The EPA’s annual MSW report aggregates this trash data nationwide. The agency’s report thus serves as a kind of “Waste and Recycling State of the Union” for those in the profession and for anyone who cares about how much waste we generate as a nation. ...more
The hot weather has arrived on the east coast, with temps in the mid 80′s. The weather has spurred me to sort through my daughter’s wardrobe to see what she has grown out of since last summer. People tell me she is so much taller than she was a year ago, and it’s true. I expect to have a considerable stack of clothes to drop off for donation; fortunately, I can do that right here at the office. ...more
There are numerous situations where you end up with a lot of trash or other waste that needs to be disposed of. Using a pickup truck isn't always practical though. So what are the top uses for disposal bin rentals? ...more
Men and women have become accustomed to throwing things away as soon as they believe that there is no longer any use for them. This has been a thing that you were taught when you were a kid, because your parents would tell you to throw something away as soon as it had been no longer in working order or the container was empty. The reality is that virtually everything can wind up being reused for something else rather than throwing it away and having it end up in our landfills. When it comes down to it plenty of the things you end up throwing in the trash can be reused and I will be speaking about a few of those items here. ...more
If you're like most people just as soon as a container is empty or something is broken you simply wind up throwing it away. Unfortunately this is a thing that has been taught to us since we were children and will take some dedication to stop doing this. You must understand that many the items that you simply throw in the trash wind up in the landfill but you could most likely find different uses for these items. In the following paragraphs we're going to be taking a look at a few of the things which you could find other uses for instead of simply throwing them away. ...more
Men and women have become accustomed to throwing things away as soon as they think that there is no longer any use for them. This has been a thing that you were taught when you were a kid, because your parents would tell you to throw something away as soon as it had been no longer working properly or the container was empty. The reality is that virtually everything can wind up being reused for something else rather than throwing it away and having it wind up in our landfills. In this article we are going to be taking a look at a number of the items that you could find other uses for instead of simply throwing them away. ...more
Just about everybody on this planet throws away far too much stuff that they could actually reuse for one more thing. Generally your parents taught you this all while you were growing up of course, if you will reverse what you are doing now you'll need dedication. The truth is that just about everything can end up being reused for something else instead of throwing it away and having it end up in our landfills. When it comes down to it plenty of the things you wind up throwing in the trash can be reused and I will be speaking about a number of those items here. ...more