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  • 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 ...

  • 3 Tips For Recycling Plastic
    December 2nd, 2017

    Plastic pollution is one of the biggest problems facing our environment today. Experts estimate that the average American throws away about 185 pounds of plastic each year. Plastic accounts for 10% of the total waste generated, because we use so ...

  • 5 Ways to Be More Environmentally Friendly
    November 20th, 2017

    Photo by Daniel Frank from Pexels Most people want to make the world a better place in some way. It’s something we can agree on, since whatever our differences, we do all live here. But not everyone knows ...

  • 3 Thanksgiving Clean-Up Tips
    November 12th, 2017

    Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of  year, full of quality time with family, football, and of course, delicious food. It can also be one of the most stressful times of year. Preparing for Thanksgiving is a chore. Cleaning up after ...

  • Waste Management for First Time Homeowners
    November 2nd, 2017

    Congratulations on your new home! As you may have already noticed, owning your own home comes with plenty of other responsibilities attached. You have mortgage payments to make, and you may have remodeling or HOA regulations to contend with. You ...

  • The Rise and Fall of Packaging Waste
    October 16th, 2017

    In the 1990s and before, the United States had a big problem with packaging waste. Think, after all, of how many packages the American household receives every day, whether it’s food packaging, appliances, or packages delivered to their door. It’s ...

  • Living the Zero Waste Life
    October 9th, 2017

    What is Zero Waste? It’s the ideal that all resources should be reusable so that nothing is wasted. A commitment to zero waste means changing your lifestyle, eating, and consumer habits to use natural, sustainable resources, and then recycling or ...

  • Decluttering for Fall Cleaning
    October 2nd, 2017

    You’ve probably heard of spring cleaning, but what about fall cleaning? The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) actually recommends that you do a major cleanse twice a year: once in the spring and once in the fall. In those six months ...