Recycling it All
This lens will help you recycle, upcycle, crecycle, freecycle and reuse just about everything. Just remember when it comes to living a sustainable life reducing is more important. Feel free to share your recycling advice and if you think this lens would help a friend pass it a long. The more people understand and know about recycling the easier it will become.
Earth-Friendly Contents
- Recycling at Home
- Recycling at Home
- Do you recycle
- What is recycling?
- 5 Easy Recycling Tips
- Reduce! Reduse! Reduce!
- Recycle Your Electronics
- Recycling on YouTube Voting (Plexo)
- Recycle Your Pots and Pans
- Eath911
- Recycling Brings New Life and Art
- Stop Unwanted Mail
- Eco-friendly Houston
- Recycling Rewards
- What is a compost?
- Compost Your Leaves and Kitchen Scraps
- Gloria's Green
- Trash To Treasure
- Recycling News
- Recycling Companies
- My Green Electronics
- How to Reuse
- Toilet Paper
- Sustainablog
- Recycling on Twitter
- Get A Little Greener With These Green Tips
- Recycled Gifts For Dad
- Recycling Contests
- Interesting Recycling
- Recycling Propane Tanks and Other Dangerous Material
- Even Tiny Things Can Be Recycled
- EcoTrust
- Recycling , Reusing and More
- Post your Recycling Thoughts
- Recycling Stuff on Amazon
Recycling at Home
In The Begining
When my husband and I bought our 30 year old home a few years ago we made a stop at the water company to set up our water. There the person setting up our account told us we could pick up a recycling bin on our next visit. My husband and I looked at each other a little confused. Then I smiled. I was so excited to know that a recycling program existed in my neighborhood.
Unfortunately, I soon found out I was the only one on my street who took her recycling bin out on Wednesdays. No one else did.
Unfortunately, I soon found out I was the only one on my street who took her recycling bin out on Wednesdays. No one else did.
Recycling at Home
Three Years Later
Though at first we were the only one on the street to bring out our recycling bin, it didn't stay that way. My next door neighbor, and elderly man with a young heart and mind, took an interest in the bin and began to ask questions? He began to take out his bin on Wednesdays too. In, fact he often took initiative and took ours out if we forgot.
Three years later at least 7 people on our street have a recycling bin set out on Wednesdays. Sure 7 isn't a lot of progress in 3 years, but there are also more bins out on recycling day throughout the neighborhood. The way I see it, some progress is better than no progress and now the recycling truck doesn't have to make a trip on my street just for my bin anymore.
Three years later at least 7 people on our street have a recycling bin set out on Wednesdays. Sure 7 isn't a lot of progress in 3 years, but there are also more bins out on recycling day throughout the neighborhood. The way I see it, some progress is better than no progress and now the recycling truck doesn't have to make a trip on my street just for my bin anymore.
Do you recycle
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What is recycling?
Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste management and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...
5 Easy Recycling Tips
1. Cut old t-shirts into large squares to use as cleaning rags.
2. Use the back of receipts as scratch paper.
3. Use egg cartons to plant seeds and watch seedlings grow.
4. Use old stockings to tie up plants in your garden.
5. Compost your kitchen scraps.
2. Use the back of receipts as scratch paper.
3. Use egg cartons to plant seeds and watch seedlings grow.
4. Use old stockings to tie up plants in your garden.
5. Compost your kitchen scraps.
Reduce! Reduse! Reduce!
Reduce your waste. For new clothes swap with a friend or at a clothes swap meet.
For new books check out books from the library or swap. For new furniture join freecycle. For new knick-knacks visit a resales shop, a thrift store, a flea market, or a consignment store. It may be used, but it doesn't mean it can't be reused. It saves you money and reduces waste.
Recycle Your Electronics
Recycle Your Pots and Pans
Calphalon Renew Program: Buy yourself a new set from Calphalon then send in your old set (no matter the brand) and have it recycled. Check out the program here
http://www.calphalonrenew.com/calphalon/consumer/renew/home.jhtml
Here's my favorite link:
Recycling Brings New Life and Art
One of the things I love most about recycling is how something that would have ended up in the trash is taken and recreated into something else, something creatively beautiful.
- The Freecycle Network
- A group to join to get free stuff, help the environment, and get to know new people
- Discarded Dreams Mattress Competition Is Here
- Today I came across a mattress recycling competition post and I was delighted to see it. Finally someone is doing something to spark more interest in new ways to recycle used beds. Who? Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon National Social Innovations is
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- This holiday season consider buying (or making) a recycled gift for your loved ones. Remember it is good for the environment your loved ones and some times also your pocket book (depending on the artist). Below is a list of 20 innovative recycled gifts I
- Got Legos? Innovative Earth Friendly Ideas To Upcycle Lego Bricks
- Thanks to my Lego fanatic husband my kids are Lego fans too. I don't mind. Really! I appreciate it. Lego bricks are a wonderful imagination opening resource for building basic life long art skills that can be used in various careers (ex. architecture),
Stop Unwanted Mail
A good way to reduce waste is to help reduce unwanted mail. Unwanted mail is exactly what it sounds like. It is mail that is sent to you even though you don't want it. It includes items like: catalogs, fliers, credit card advertisements, etc.
You know it when you see it because you probably call it junk mail and it just ends up in the trash (or the recy le bin). We can talk later about how to recycle your junk mail, but the best thing to do for the environment is help reduce the production of unwanted mail. It will save trees, water, energy and prevent more waste from eneding up in the landfill.
Help me get the word out to companies that it is not okay to send us unwanted junk mail. There are various ways to do this. We can contact the company directly via phone, email or mail and ask them to take us off their mailing list. We can follow the instructions at the websites below to remove us from specifics types of junk mail.
You know it when you see it because you probably call it junk mail and it just ends up in the trash (or the recy le bin). We can talk later about how to recycle your junk mail, but the best thing to do for the environment is help reduce the production of unwanted mail. It will save trees, water, energy and prevent more waste from eneding up in the landfill.
Help me get the word out to companies that it is not okay to send us unwanted junk mail. There are various ways to do this. We can contact the company directly via phone, email or mail and ask them to take us off their mailing list. We can follow the instructions at the websites below to remove us from specifics types of junk mail.
- Ideal Bite - Cancelling Phone Book Delivery - Wanna study up on how to stop getting phonebooks?
- Don't cheat yourself or the forest. Sign up and you'll never receive another paper phonebook. Taking notes?
- Movement Against Unsolicited Phone Book Delivery
- Sign up to be taken off the phone book mailing list
- Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
- Junk mail may seem as inevitable as death and taxes, but with a little patience there are effective ways to tackle the problem. This guide provides clear, simple and proven reduction techniques. About 20 minutes investment now will clear the junk for between two and five years.
- REMOVE YOURSELF FROM JUNK MAIL LISTS
- Junk mail is more than a nuisance: unsolicited mail has a tremendous negative impact on the environment. At least 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail, and 28 billion gallons of water are used to produce the paper. All of these resources are wasted to produce items many people don't even look at: about half of all junk mail is thrown out unopened or unread, and the rate of response to junk mail is less than 2 percent. The result is that more than 4 million tons of paper is wasted every year, according to the Native Forest Network (now known as the WildWest Institute).
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, but most of all Reduce"
Eco-friendly Houston
The City of Houston is working harder than ever to make Houston green. We have made a lot of progress, but more is needed. We need the help of every citizen of Houston to do their part. I would encourage everyone to take a little time and explore this web site to learn what they can do to make Houston green.
-- Mayor Bill White
-- Mayor Bill White
- Welcome to www.greenhoustontx.gov
- www.greenhoustontx.gov is the official web site for the City of Houston Mayor's Office of Environmental Programming.
- Living Earth - Technology Co.
- Living Earth is the largest manufacturer and provider of mulch, compost and other landscaping materials in Texas, as well as Texas' largest recycler of green material. We operate 15 locations in Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth and Pineland, selling to commercial landscaping contractors, nurseries and homeowners
- Recycle Ike
- Due to the OVERWHELMING number of participants, we ask participants to summarize their idea onto one page when they prepare their proposal. Of course, you can always
Recycling Rewards
It has come to my attention that some people need incentive to do things. Do you need an incentive to recycle?
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What is a compost?
Category: File - :Compost-dirt.jpg|thumb|right|An example of compost soil
Compost ( or US ) is a combination of decomposed plant and animal materials and other organic materials that are being decomposed largely through aerobic decomposition into a rich black soil. The process of composting is simple and practiced by individuals in their homes, farmers on their land, and industrially by industries and cities.
Compost soil is very rich soil and used for many purposes. A few of the places that it i...
Compost Your Leaves and Kitchen Scraps
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Gloria's Green
Check out these planet-friendly innovations.
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- Turning Trash into Treasure
- That's the simple idea behind RecycleBank, the brainchild of two high-school science-lab partners and one of the "hottest plays" among venture-capital firms. In a word, or four, by "turning garbage to gold," RecycleBank has changed the economics of recycling. In cities and towns where it's operating, like Wilmington, Delaware, recycling rates have jumped tenfold, from 3 percent to 32 percent.
- Plastic Bottle Art
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Recycling News
- Why California Recycled 80% of Glass and the Rest of the U.S. 30% - thedailygreen.com
- Glass recycling rates are up, but only on beverages that have a deposit - showing how critical a program those nickel and dime deposits are for increasing recycling rates.
- Recycle Your Own Paper With the Meiko SEED System
- What if you could buy an innovative machine for the office that allowed you to shred used paper and in a few hours the machine recycled these shreds of paper into new usable recycled paper for you? Would you invest in it? It depends on the price and the
- Breath Into the Eco-box And Make Fuel
- These days it seems everything can be turned into fuel: cooking oil, garbage, corn, algae, etc. I never imaged an airport full of people's breaths could be converted into fuel too. If the idea seems a little far-fetched, it isn't. The breaths we exhale
- Machine From Japan Turns Office Waste Into Toilet Paper : TreeHugger
- Photo: Nakabayashi The Other Way Around Would be More Impressive... I'm not too sure what to think about this 1,300 lbs piece of machinery by Tokyo-based Nakabayashi. It takes paper waste from an office and turns it into toilet
- Electronics Recycling with YouRenew – Sell Cell Phones YouRenew.com - thedailygreen.com
- YouRenew.com pays cash for old cell phones and other used electronics. It's easy electronics recycling, and you can make money.
- grey water recycling in Israel
- A pilot project to examine grey water recycling in Israel has gotten under way recently, it was revealed to The Jerusalem Post this week.
- Astronauts took a swig of recycled urine water
- Astronauts took a swig of recycled urine water to toast their successful testing of the wastewater recycling system on the International Space Station.
- Are Shredded Tires Polluting Our Playgrounds? : TreeHugger
- Photo: Mykl Roventine via Flickr The EPA is reexamining whether crumb rubber, made from shredded tires, is safe for playground applications. Previously, the EPA had okayed shredded tires for civil engineering and public recreation projects, but pressure by the
- Sludge from the grill to be recycled | Campus Voice | Pacific Lutheran University
- Sludge from the grill to be recycled
Recycling Companies
- TerraCycle Inc
- Recycle it all
- Greener Gadgets: Green Electronics Guide
- Green Electronics Guide for Recycling Your Electronins
- Your Renew
- Get paid to recycle
Here's my favorite link:
How to Reuse
- How to Recycle and Reuse Holiday Cards | eHow.com
- How to Recycle and Reuse Holiday Cards. Each year 2.65 billion Christmas cards are made. Instead of throwing out your old holiday cards, consider donating them to charitable groups that will create new cards - or turn them into new cards yo...
- Recycling tips [Reduce Your Rubbish]
- Tips on how to make recycling easy.
- To Donate, or Recreate: Where Should Your Old Jeans Go? : TreeHugger
- Photo Courtesy of Neatorama Next time you're home, look around your closet. Your attic. How many pairs of jeans do you have there, unworn for months, years, decades even? I have four. Aside from the ones you keep for
Toilet Paper
People often don't buy recycled toilet paper because it is too rough. Well what if you could buy cloth wipes to clean yourself. Soft and reusable they would be the perfect eco-solution. Right?
Take a look at Wallypop Wipes
http://inventorspot.com/articles/wollypop_brings_reusable_question_24807
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Sustainablog
- An Attempt to Supply Some Perspective About GMO, “Genetic Contamination” Issue
- Clean Tech Finland: Funding & Support (pt. 1)
- Quick: name five Finnish clean tech start-ups. You may have trouble with that one… in fact, yo...
- My Recent Interaction with a Green Peace Campaigner
- Last week as I emerged from a grocery store I was met by a young GREENPEACE campaigner. He asked m...
- UNFCCC Chief Says Copenhagen Conference Will Bring Clarity, Commitment, Action
- Speaking at a press conference from Bonn last week, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer conveyed...
- Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
- Janet Larsen
http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2009/update85
Future firefighters...
Recycling on Twitter
What do twitter members have to say about recycling? Follow the twitter crowd here.
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- larecycles
- @MsShaina310 We can't change the weather but thx 4 recycling in our blue bin! Recycling questions? Just tweet @ us or fllow us on facebook.
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- SusanPowers
- RT @greenlasagna: A winter #gardening project: "Recycling Mini Blinds to Make Weatherproof Labels for Your Plants" ( http://bit.ly/641hTO )
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- SunHealth
- Update: Men's Health Stopped Writing New Cover Lines Years Ago [Recycling]|Yesterday, Men's Health editor David .. http://oohja.com/x3y3l
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- DAKGirl
- Off to run a couple errands...including recycling....Go green baby...a couple emails is no reason to be lazy! :)
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- vyouz
- Spare Parts Recycling. Empty your garage unwanted items can go here http://bit.ly/48sg2h
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- ratherironic
- Kinda disapointed with the turnout for this years Electronics Recycling day. Usually we score some really cool useless crap. #wantsanapple2
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- angelkutty
- News to know - Update: Men's Health Stopped Writing New Cover Lines Years Ago [Recycling]: Yester.. http://bit.ly/67npOH
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- TalkinTrashMC
- Did you know...? Our #MoCo recycling collection accepts yard trim year-round! http://bit.ly/6G4dPD
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- foodcoop
- Plastic Recycling THIS SAT 10 AM-2 PM #1 and #6, some #5, bubble wrap - check the site for details http://foodcoop.com/go.php?id=112
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- mrallcz
- RT @newscientist How's this for recycling: Old plastic bags made into nanotubes for high power batteries http://bit.ly/6di5Pn
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- AdamSacks
- Now that everyone's all about the environment, sustainability and recycling, is it okay to pick your nose and it eat?
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- rydoexpress
- Recycling Containers and Lids - http://bit.ly/6FeZqV
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- Reasons For Companies to Use Compaction and Recycling Equipment: The largest environmental polluters in today... http://tinyurl.com/ydvtzpd
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Get A Little Greener With These Green Tips
Recycled Gifts For Dad
Father's Day
- UncommonGoods | Unique Gifts With A Creative Twist
- UncommonGoods offers hundreds of unique and special birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, baby shower gifts, wedding gifts and housewarming gifts. Our selection includes modern design items, handmade artisan works, free-trade products, gifts made of recycled materials, specialty gifts and gifts for the
- Ties Aren't Just For Boys: Lilian Asterfield Upcycled Ties Are Wearable Art : TreeHugger
- Photo credit: Nicole Deponte Here's a fresh take on the perennial menswear-inspired trend: Designer Nicole Deponte scavenges for vintage silk and poly neckties, then stitches them into one-of-a-kind ascots, necklaces, scarves, and wristlets bursting with an edgy, avant garde
Recycling Contests
- Kiwi Magazine - Enter My Recycled Art Contest
- Recycling Contest
Interesting Recycling
- 26 Chairs Made from Recycled Materials
- Take a look at these recycled chairs?
- NEWS 10 Recycling Oddities
- If you're old enough to remember the Carter Administration like me, you're old enough to have witnessed the birth of modern day recycling in the U.S.A. I'm glad - and proud - that we're now a nation where recycling is as common as an eight track tape player was in an AMC Gremlin back when Jimmy was president.
Recycling Propane Tanks and Other Dangerous Material
- DEP: Recycling Propane Grill Tanks
- Recycling Propane Grill Tanks Abstract: Description: It is important that propane tanks are stored and handled properly to facilitate recycling.
Even Tiny Things Can Be Recycled
- How to Recycle Silica Gel Packets
- How to Recycle Silica Gel Packets
- Reuse. Reduce. Recycle Introducing the Return to Origins Recycling Program.
- Recycling Cosmetics.
EcoTrust
Ecotrust is a conservation organization committed to strengthening communities and the environment from Alaska to California. We work with Native peoples and in the fisheries, forestry, and food sectors to build a regional economy based on social and ecol
Recycling , Reusing and More
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50 Things you can Reuse
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Recycling is very important, but even better is reusing. Recycling actually uses energy and transport time and fuel to get the items to where they need to go. If you can reuse an item yourself, that's more energy, time and fuel saved, as well as...
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Recycling-Facts For All
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In light of the USA's current solid waste disposal crisis, it's obvious that recycling can -and must- play a vital role in any future management of waste in this country. Whereas the idea was a fact of life hundreds of years ago, it had become an aft...
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How To Make Homemade Recyled Paper
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Not many people has ever recycled any paper. After all, paper is the number 100 pounds of rubbish we throw, 35 pounds are papers. Papers consist of 14% of the landfill spaces, not including those used for packaging, of which consist an additional 15%...
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From Poop to Recycled Condoms: The Top 5 weird and gross recycled products
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Here at GreenBeans headquarters, recycling is a way of life! We spend our days focused on transforming the ugly and discarded into beautiful function. From high quality OEM batteries, to cell phones and accessories, we scrub, rub, tinker and test all...
Post your Recycling Thoughts
What recycling information would you like to know? Has this lens helped you? Do you have a reycling lens? Does your community have a recycling program? Do you buy recycled products? Do you recycle? Do you reuse before you recycle? Tell me. Tell everyone. Post a comment below.
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- dagsmith dagsmith Nov 6, 2009 @ 7:18 pm
- Awesome lens. I'm going to print this out and keep it - not I guess that would be wrong ;-)
But seriously - 5*****
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Oct 23, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
- Great lens! I recycle!
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- GeothermalVids GeothermalVids Sep 9, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
- Great lens. Thanks for all this useful information!
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- luvmyludwig luvmyludwig Jul 29, 2009 @ 5:38 am
- There's a ton of helpful information here :)
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- janices7 janices7 Mar 15, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
- Great lens! I'm definitely using the phone books link because I swear we get 4 or 5 phonebooks every year and we don't even use them. Thanks for all the great resources.
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