Everything You Need to Know About Glass Recycling

Not all recycling is plastic and cardboard. What do you do when it comes to tossing out glass? This is not a common problem for most homeowners, since glass is easily washable and not often used as a container or for packaging. However, you may find yourself trimming down on ...

2019-10-01T14:51:20-05:00October 1st, 2019|

How to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly, Room By Room

Eco-friendly living has never been more necessary than now. Fortunately, with new advancements every day, it’s never been easier to have a comfortable and eco-friendly home. Whether it comes to your waste management or your energy efficiency, anyone can make their home a little greener. If the process seems overwhelming, ...

2019-09-14T13:49:24-05:00September 14th, 2019|

3 Tips For Moving Out of Your College Dorm

With the end of the year fast approaching, you may be looking at all the stuff you’ve accumulated in your dorm room and wondering, “How am I going to get all of this out?” It can be a stressful process, especially if you live out of state during the summer ...

2019-05-22T21:31:15-05:00May 22nd, 2019|

FAQs about Trash & Recycling

Every day, you throw away old food wrappers, paper towels, and other waste, hopefully sorting between the regular trash and recyclables. At the end of the week, you drag your bins to the curb to be picked up. But what happens after that? Are you sure that you’re sorting your ...

2019-02-04T07:08:22-05:00February 4th, 2019|

How to Dispose of Unused Medications

What happens to your medication when you no longer need it? Maybe you have pain relievers that are expired or a prescription that you were given when recovering from an illness that you got over before you finished it. Your first instinct might be to throw the bottle away with ...

2019-01-17T12:32:02-05:00January 17th, 2019|

The Problem With Food Waste

In the United States, food waste makes up 1.3% of the total GDP. And this isn’t specifically a US problem. Throughout the world, about 33-50% of food produced is thrown away. This happens in restaurants especially. When customers don’t finish their food, or produce isn’t used on a particular night, ...

2018-07-15T12:36:32-05:00July 15th, 2018|

Keeping Kids Safe Around Garbage Trucks

Garbage trucks are hard to miss. They’re massive, noisy, and they usually carry with them the smell of, well, garbage. However, kids don’t typically worry too much about garbage trucks, and small kids are very easy for garbage trucks to miss. It’s important for anyone to be careful around the ...

2018-06-14T22:57:56-05:00June 14th, 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|
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