What is Recycling Contamination and Why Does it Matter?

Most of us can agree that recycling is a good thing. It’s always good to cut down on your waste and reuse our resources as much as possible, for the sake of the local environment and the world at large. But too often, people who recycle do so without thinking ...

2018-05-01T02:09:40-05:00May 1st, 2018|

4 Ways to Cut Down on Food Waste

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 waste management companies can only do so much to help ...

2018-04-01T08:37:16-05:00April 1st, 2018|

How Smart Waste Management Can Protect Wildlife

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 necks. Polluted ocean water causes hundreds of whales and dolphins ...

2018-02-16T12:26:08-05:00February 16th, 2018|

The Environmental Impact of Our Waste

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 is non-biodegradable, and that can be a problem when it ...

2018-02-02T08:16:45-05:00February 2nd, 2018|

4 New Year’s Recycling Resolutions

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 people choose new year’s resolutions based on their career, like, ...

2023-05-05T19:46:50-05:00January 9th, 2018|

3 Ways to Keep Food Out of the Garbage

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, it goes in the trash. When food goes bad too ...

2018-01-02T03:04:41-05:00January 2nd, 2018|

Cleaning Up After Christmas

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 tree, if you got a real tree this year. It’s ...

2017-12-23T05:07:31-05:00December 23rd, 2017|

3 Tips For Recycling Plastic

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 much of it.  And because plastic is non-biodegradable, it tends ...

2017-12-02T04:46:06-05:00December 2nd, 2017|

5 Ways to Be More Environmentally Friendly

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 the best way to do it. When it comes to ...

2017-11-20T06:47:24-05:00November 20th, 2017|

Waste Management for First Time Homeowners

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 may be as busy with yardwork as with housecleaning. But ...

2017-11-02T05:17:23-05:00November 2nd, 2017|
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