BV Trash Valet Blog

  • 4 Ways to Cut Down on Food Waste
    April 1st, 2018

    As a waste management company with a complimentary recycling service, Brazos Valley Trash Valet & Recycling can help you reduce your carbon footprint in many ways. Unfortunately, food waste is still a pretty big problem in the United States that ...

  • What Does Each Plastic Recycling Code Mean?
    March 8th, 2018

    You’ve probably noticed the little numbers inside the recycling triangle on your plastic bottles or lids. You may not have given them much thought until one day, you saw that your recycling company “only accepts plastics #1-2.” But what are ...

  • Spring Cleaning Made Greener
    March 1st, 2018

    Spring cleaning is almost upon us. Among all the hours of house cleaning, reorganizing, and clearing the patio of debris left by the winter, you’re bound to have plenty of trash that will need throwing out. Do you know what ...

  • How Smart Waste Management Can Protect Wildlife
    February 16th, 2018

    image by pixabay It’s no secret that the waste problem in America and throughout the world has an impact on wildlife. Pictures surface every year of ducks, lizards, or other animals with plastic packaging rings caught around their ...

  • The Environmental Impact of Our Waste
    February 2nd, 2018

    image by pixabay We hear all the time that waste has an impact on the environment. Words like “ozone” are thrown around, as well as images of fish and ducks stuck inside plastic packaging. We know that plastic ...

  • 4 New Year’s Recycling Resolutions
    January 9th, 2018

    image by pixabay December is the month for looking back on the past year, but January is the month for looking forward. It’s a time for making resolutions and then taking steps to live up to them. Many ...

  • 3 Ways to Keep Food Out of the Garbage
    January 2nd, 2018

    image by pixabay Americans throw away about 40% of our food supply each year. When restaurants make too much food, or their customers don’t finish their meal, it goes in the trash. When you overprepare for the holidays, ...

  • Cleaning Up After Christmas
    December 23rd, 2017

    Just like Thanksgiving, Christmas has its own special (and sometimes daunting) waste management challenges. After all the presents are exchanged and the dinner is finished, you have a veritable mountain of boxes, paper, and food waste. And then there’s the ...

  • Smart Ways to Dispose of Furniture
    December 9th, 2017

    No couch is meant to last forever. At some point in your life, you’ve probably been faced with the issue of disposing of furniture. Sometimes if your old furniture is still functional, you might buy new furniture to better express ...