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Basic Tips on Recycling: Video

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Recycle: The Essential Guide

Recycle: The Essential Guide

Recycle: The Essential Guide is the indispensable handbook to recycling today, tackling everything from the urgency of resource depletion on a global scale to what the individual reader can do to reduce waste in their own home.

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Information from Black Dog Press on Recycle: The Essential Guide
“The guide is fully illustrated and cleverly designed, with colorful photographs, charts and illustrations bringing the text to life, and with an introduction by Lucy Siegle, who contextualizes recycling in the changing global economy; discussing the way it has changed throughout the ages, and raising questions about where it is headed in the future. Recycle provides clear information about the materials and processes of recycling, illustrated by case studies, and a comprehensive international directory of organizations and authorities involved in recycling processes, as well as consumer directory for eco-design, and a glossary of recycling terms.

Recycle is a comprehensive resource that is essential for modern living; it is the essential guide for anyone wanting to
minimise the impact of their consumption on the environment.” Continue reading

Recycling Christmas and Holiday Cards

Another Great Way to Recycle Holiday Gift Materials
Recycle Christmas Cards

Happy New Year 2010 Everyone! We’ll be entering into our third year at Easy Ways to Go Green, come this next April. Very exciting. In this post, we offer one more ridiculously easy way to maximize holiday recycling efforts. If the holidays have you concerned about consumption and needless wasting of precious materials like paper, then check out the great tip below that I picked up from my sister this year. Continue reading

Can I Recycle a Pizza Box?

Are Pizza Boxes From Delivered Pizza Okay to Put in the Recycle Bins?
Pizza Boxes Are Not Recyclable

What we Americans often take for granted is the vastness of the American landscape, and therefore the vastness of different aspects of any general economic market. Speaking specifically about something like pizza delivery in this country, we are talking about a daily (or hourly!) phenomenon that spans every racial and socio-economic tier. So when deciding if pizza boxes should be recycled or not, we’re not just discussing a small, limited issue with few ramifications. Instead, we’re talking about a national phenomenon, considering the facts: Over 1 billion pizzas are delivered every year, while over 11.5 million pizzas are sold every day in this country.

So Can We Recycle Pizza Boxes or Not?

The problem with recycling pizza boxes is Continue reading

Information on Waste Recycycling and Management

Waste Management and Recycling of Waste
Waste Management
Waste management is an often-overlooked subject, but its relationship to the environment, and therefore to all things “green” and “eco-friendly” cannot be understated. In this post, we’ll break down the basics of waste management and environmentally sound methods of safe waste recycling.

So where does it all go? The garbage and waste we produce and discard just magically disappears, becoming someone else’s concern — a thing we so easily take for granted. But literally everything we make, from trash in the garbage bin to the material that goes through the garbage disposal and down the sink drain, has to encounter the environment again at some point. And recycling, re-using and ultimately limiting the use of materials and products all can help in preserving the environment. Continue reading

Easy Ways to Recycle Electronic Gadgets

The Easy Way to Recycle Your Cell Phone and More
Recycle Gadgets Easily
Electronics in general are a big player in clogging up landfills — according to the EPA, over 3 million tons of electronic gadgetry ended up in the trash in 2003. They are also the cause of overstuffed drawers in your home office. Let’s face it, you don’t need that extra battery charger. And if Consumer Reports is correct, 2 out of 10 people own a laptop or desktop they aren’t using. Continue reading