The average American produces over four pounds of garbage every day. Reuse common types of trash before you recycle to make a big impact on how much material gets wasted every day.

Although throwing a piece of garbage in the household trash can and then putting it out on collection day to be removed from your life is simple, that much extra effort is needed to repurpose and reuse some of it to benefit your surroundings.

Clothes are so easy to reuse, yet so many families just don't take the time to really think about how they can reuse their clothes. There are at least half a dozen different ways you can put your old clothes to new uses. Here are a few tips you can do with your old clothes, instead of throwing them away.

Linens, towels and sheets will inevitably get old and need to be thrown out. Not so fast, however - Just because you don't want to sleep on them or use them after a shower doesn't mean they don't have other uses. In fact, linens, towels and sheets can often be [...]

Children and adults alike go through a lot of paper. It could be junk mail, it could be homework, it could be that work memo you no longer need or it could be a drawing your child scrapped. Instead of throwing away your old paper, why not put it to [...]