Green Cleaning Tips
Everybody wants to keep a clean home, but in today’s world, green issues are increasingly important. As a result, chemical-based cleaning products are becoming less popular with those of us who are environmentally-aware.
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Textile Recycling & Reducing Environmental Impacts
Planet Aid is a nonprofit organization that collects clothing and shoes to help protect the environment and support sustainable economic development in many impoverished countries all around the world. They help protect the environment and preserveour natural habitat by helping to reduce the large volume of discarded textiles that entering landfills.
TerraCycle: Garbage in Eco-Friendly Products out
TerraCycle, Inc. is an international upcycling and recycling company that takes difficult to recycle packaging and turns it into affordable, eco-friendly products. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle is the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste. TerraCycle works with over 30 major brands in the U.S. (and in a growing number of [...]
Biomass as Alternative Energy Source
The ability to process wood, plants, agricultural and organic waste points to biomass as an alternative energy source is the future especially since the fuel is readily available but the technology is still a work in progress. The ability to recycle animal waste and the tons of trash now hauled to landfills is the driving force behind predictions of increasing use of biomass as an alternative energy source. Processing waste is a huge business and increased need for acres of land to use as landfills is meeting more public resistance today.
Biomass as an alternative energy source shows great potential for the future and could help replace fossil fuels that will be unavailable at some point. Before turning to biomass as an alternative energy source to be widely used, we must understand the process and address any unforeseen issues that might be involved.
The Great Refrigerator Roundup
The Great Refrigerator Roundup is a program designed to remove older, inefficient refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners from our electricity system. It offers an opportunity for people to have older refrigerators and freezers picked at no cost to the home owner.
Kill the Paper Receipts
Not only do millions of paper receipts end up in landfills every year (thermal receipts cannot be recycled), the production of receipts does some real damage to the environment as well. An estimated 9 million trees are used just to produce paper receipts alone (not to mention the ink used).
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