Recycling Articles
1: The Green Guide to Recycling Almost Anything, Part 1
Americans throw away a lot of trash - 1500 pounds for every man, woman and child. But with a little digging you'll see that almost everything can be given a second life through some kind of recycling. For some items recycling means breaking them down into the metal plastic or glass they are made of. Other things are recycled by giving them to others to enjoy or donating them to a charity. This guide is the first of a series that will help you cut down on waste in landfills and bring new useful life to countless items you might ordinarily throw in the trash.
2: Recycling Our Closets
How many times have you torn through your closet and come up empty, even though you may have thrumbed through 45 outfits? The basic idea in recycling is to reuse, right?
3: Recycling - Even Bricks Can Be ReUsed
One of the most innovative ways of recycling materials that have probably been over-looked came in the form of a contractor re-using bricks from a brick wall that needed to be torn down during the construction of an addition to a home.
4: What If You could Be Paid To Recycle?
The idea of getting paid to recycle may sound far fetched and you may think the story will end with, "...and they lived happily ever after." But that is not the case with a company from Pennsylvania who has come up with the genius idea about how to encourage people to recycle.
5: Recycling - How To Prevent The Excess
The idea of recycling is to reuse an item rather than toss it into the trash and have it end up filling space in a landfill, right? Here's a thought; why not have the waste in the first place? Are you with me? How can this be accomplished, you may be asking yourself, and that's good because I have a few ideas I'd like to share.
6: Recycling - How To Start And Maintain A Compost Pile
In today's world, where the idea of recycling is not an option, but a necessity, having your own compost pile is a great activity and resources in keeping with the mandatory recycle laws. The bonuses of composting heavily outweigh any negative connotations compost piles have had to defend themselves against; mainly, the smell.
7: Recycling: Putting An End To Junk Mail
In an average week how much junk mail comes to your home? For the average American family, with two adults and two children, they could probably weigh their junk mail at the end of any given week to equal the weight of a small animal.
8: Recycling: Visit A Landfill
For 43 years I've been someone who never really finished the thought; when I throw something away it goes...
9: Recycling At An Annual Festival
For the past 25 years the city of Frederick, Maryland, has hosted a street festival in the fall. This event draws 75,000 people who flock the streets to hear live music, enjoy children's activities and purchase items made by local artisans. The event is lacking in only one area: the area of recycling. For all of its years in existence the festival has never had the means to take on the task of recycling its cans, bottles and paper.
10: Recycling And Kids' Toys
One of the biggest mistakes parents make, especially in the time when their family is young, is to over spend and buy more toys than children can possibly play with before just feeling overwhelmed. When children are in a play room, overflowing with toys, they often will retreat, feeling there are too many to choose from, and will not play with any of them.
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