Well, I’m not 100% better, but I’m in a much healthier place than where I was last week (I think I much of my recovery to due my future mom-in-law’s homemade chicken soup and Ozark pudding- thanks Eileen!)
Here, as promised, is part 3 of our wedding dress adventure: the joys of renting.
To start, feast your [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recycle’
Green wedding dresses pt 3
March 15th, 2010
Posted by: erin
Zany ways to recycle used electronics
February 26th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reports that the tech industry collected and recycled about 200 million pounds of discarded consumer electronics last year, and that this could double in 2010.
E-waste is a significant environmental hazard. Since there are a lot of unused desktops and laptops stashed in homes and offices, it could get worse.
Author Randy Sarafan [...]
Bring Three R’s In Your Life
February 20th, 2010
Posted by: adymat
Three R’s resembles reduce, reuse and recycle. If we people will bring these 3 R’s in our life than we will be able to get rid of at least half of waste we add on Earth’s crust every year. And it requires no need to mention here it will help our Earth’s precious non renewable [...]
What to do when your done?
February 20th, 2010
Posted by: itshiptobegreen
Used to be that this was an easy question. You just threw things in the trash, and took the trash out. Out of site out of mind right? Growing up that was the case for me. Though I have to say my family was more green than we knew at the time. I can remember [...]
Categories: Climate Change Earth Friendly Products Ecology Green Living Green Parenting Sustainable living organic lifestyle
Tags: earth friendly, Ecology, Green Living, nature conservation, re-use, recycle, Trash
Millions of pounds of commercial flooring diverted from landfills
February 16th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Last year Resource Commercial Flooring Network members diverted an astonishing 6.8 million pounds of carpet and carpet waste from landfills.
By reducing and sometimes eliminating waste in carpet projects, through their ReSource initiative, Ecolect™ (their national material collection and recycle program), members promote sustainable business practices. They recommend effective, sustainable methods for reclaiming material, diverting it from landfills across [...]
Scotland Yard recycles weapons for the London Olympics
January 8th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Scotland Yard is giving the biblical phrase “swords into plowshares” a new twist.
Usng a unique recycling method, the famed British constabulary is turning the metal from unwanted weaponry into something useful. 52 tons of scrap metal from guns, knives, keys and other assorted metal objects will be melted to be used to make steel girders for bridges and buildings, and used in cars and trains. [...]
Cisco cuts net 40% greenhouse gas emissions
December 9th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
In several previous posts I’ve poked at corporations that boasted cuts in their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when they’ve been only around 2 to 5 percent. This time, however, one company has cuts that are substantial.
Cisco Systems has succeeded in cutting their net emissions by 40 percent, compared against 2007. These figures include what’s termed Scope 1 direct emissions from Cisco-owned [...]
Categories: Exciting New Deveopments Tags: Carbon Footprint, electronic, energy, Energy Efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, recycle, Renewable Energy, Sustainability
Minnesota begins pilot program to recycle old holiday lights
November 25th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The Recycling Association of Minnesota has launched its Recycle Your Holidays light strand collection program. Now strands of older holiday lights can be placed curbside in recycling bins and business drop offs throughout the state.
Select retailers are accepting drop-off of these lights until January 10, 2010. Stores are also offering $5 coupons for every strand recycled at their [...]
TerraCycle to recycle diaper packaging
November 20th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The company that created a world-famous organic fertilizer from worm poop and has ”re-purposed” discarded product packaging is at it again.
TerraCycle created their Drink Brigade program two years ago, Since then, they’ve taken product packaging waste like candy and cookie wrappers and used drink pouches that would have ended up in landfills and given them a second life as lunchboxes, binders and portable [...]
A home for trashed tape dispensers, at last
October 29th, 2009
Posted by: grmeyers
News from Sustainable Life Media/Green Design
“Terracycle has partnered with 3M and their Scotch Brand transparent tape products to design an upcycling program where the Terracycle Brigades will collect empty Scotch tape dispensers and cores and return them to 3M for reuse.
“The project is the first in which Terracycle is participating in the reverse supply chain [...]
Categories: Businesses Tags: 3M, greenstreetsfinancialdistrict, grmeyers, Kraft Foods, Mars, recycle, Scotch Brand, Sustinable Life Media, Terracycle, Tom Szaky, upcycle