The Recycling Items Like Computers And TVs

With the way technology is out-doing themselves year after year with newer, better, bigger and improved products for computer users, you can surely just imagine the amount of waste that is generated when consumers upgrade along with the process.  One household may have one or two computers to upgrade on a yearly basis but if you add to that computers and monitors from even a very small business, the numbers add up very quickly.  Read more

Visit Any Landfill

For 43 years or so I’ve been someone who never really finished the thought; when I throw something away it goes…

I’ve given myself a very great gift this year; call it a field trip, if you like, but I took myself to my town’s landfill and had my eyes opened for the first time.  Maybe the concept of someone reaching their 40s and still not being contientious of recycling is one that sounds very far-fetched, well, it’s the truth.  I didn’t grow up imagining the Earth covered in over-flowing landfills, piles and piles of garbage as high as the tallest building that was not my experience.  But because the very idea of leaving too much waste for the Earth to handle is a bitter reality today, I’ve begun to educate myself.  Read more

How To Surely Prevent The Excess

The very 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 at all accomplished, you may be asking yourself, and that’s good because I have a few ideas I’d like to share. Read more

Even The Bricks Can Be ReUsed

One of the very 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.  Read more