The Recycling On Loon Mountain In New Hampshire
Loon Mountain is located in New Hampshire, right in the very middle of the state and as a part of the White Mountains. If you know anything about New Hampshire, you’ll know that some of the country’s very best winter sports take place in the White Mountains. When you think of skiing; recycling probably isn’t your first visual, but Loon Mountain is looking to change that very perception. Read more
How You Can Make An Impact With Recycling
Have you been bombarded with advertisements and news stories about the very desperate shape our planet is in and thought to yourself, “I’m only one person, I can’t even put a dent in what needs to be done to make things better?” With all of the media coverage on issues like, acid rain, loss of rain forests, endangered animals, the depleting ozone layer and even former Vice President Al Gore’s pet project, global warming, it’s surely an easy thing to feel over-whelmed and small on this great space. But the reality is this; if not you, then who? Read more
Recycling and Todays Teens
Recycling has been around longer than any of today’s young teens have been alive and maybe that’s why recycling has never ever been a question for them as to whether or not they should recycle but has always been more of a “How else can we help when recycling,” kind of thought process. My very own generation, having grown up in the 70’s has a different mind-set. In fact, I have to remind myself the reasons we recycle, when to recycle and how to keep my family and household up-to-date and aware of the reasons to recycle. 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
Recycling And The Kids Toys
One of the very 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 far too many to choose from, and will not play with any of them. It is very important to purchase toys that will last for a long time, too. Fewer well made toys will be a much greater gift than more toys that are made without lasting quality. Read more
A Good Look At New York City Recycling
New York City, in just its five boroughs, has a population of well over 8 million and in an area smaller than most states; you can just imagine how much waste is created on a daily basis. Recycling in New York City is very mandatory and has been since July 1989. Before that date, starting in 1986, recycling was voluntary and as it began to catch on, recycling-educating materials from pamphlets, decals to TV and newspaper advertisements flooded the area up until 1997, when all five boroughs and all 59 districts were recycling all of the very same materials. By this time an impact was being made in recycling waste right up until the events of September 11th, 2001. After the 9/11 tragedy forced budget cuts were implemented for the Department of Sanitation.
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Outdoor Play Time & The Recycling
Without a doubt the very best play time is spent outside in the fresh air and in an effort to remain responsible to the environment there are a few things to keep in mind when out and about. Read more
The Easy Ways to Recycle
When you think of recycling do you sigh and think that you just don’t have the time or the energy to do it? Do you see visions of hundreds of thousands of empty plastic bottles in some far, far-away factory getting ready to be melted down? Do you think that recycling is something that has to be very hard; otherwise if it’s not hard, then it doesn’t count at all? I’m embarrassed to say that at one time, these were the very thoughts that ran through my head and they justified my reasons for not recycling. I’m here to tell you that I was very mistaken; recycling isn’t something difficult, or something you have to go out of your way to participate in and when it’s easy, well, it’s just easy; and it still counts toward recycling. Read more
Recycling Our Own Closets
How many times have you torn through your closet and come up empty handed, even though you may have thrumbed through 45 outfits? The basic idea in recycling is to reuse, right? So, why do we insist on keeping perfectly good outfits, hanging on a hanger in our many closets, when maybe they would be worn by someone else? This basic, simple idea is one we should keep in mind when we find ourselves frustrated without “a single thing to wear!” Read more
