Did you know that as much as 91 percent of plastic doesn’t get recycled? Even a lot of what you put into the recycling bin never actually gets reused due to the expensive process of recycling plastic. We have all heard of the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, but a lot of us tend to focus […]
How to Reduce Your Waste
We all learned about the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” when we were in school. However, there is now a more holistic approach to reducing waste which includes the 5 R’s – refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. If you can incorporate all five of these concepts into the way you handle all of the ‘stuff’ […]
What Is A Zero Waste Lifestyle?
Many have seen the videos online of people showing off jars containing all of the trash they have produced in a year – as close to nothing as one can possibly get. These people say they are zero waste, but what does this actually mean in practice? The basic idea behind a zero waste lifestyle […]
Recycle your unused paint with PaintCare!
Do you have extra, unused paint laying around in your garage? Perhaps your bedroom repaint project left a half a can or so over. Well, this recycling initiative is helping Washingtonians recycle their unused paint — and Sean O’Grady has the story: PaintCare is an all-new recycling project that’s aiming to make use of unused […]