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Great resource!!
8 months ago
K y’all.. this might be really obvious, but this site is a really good resource for recycling ideas!
http://www.world.org/weo/recycle
Check it out!!
How to recycle everything
It made me
green 
"You really learn how to live within your means."
How I did it: I lived alone this summer, and did much of my own cooking, worked a lot, and actually ate for free at the restaurant I worked at, which took care of one or two meals a day. This left me with very little trash. I was able to recycle all of my containers (and I sold the cans at a recycling center), and did not waste ANY food, even if it required having the same thing three days in a row. I even went dumpster diving at my second job, which was at a golf course, and I removed a lot of containers from there for recycling, because the superintendant did not provide recycling bins. I basically did all I could to make as little trash as possible.
Lessons & tips: Shop for items with little packaging, know what your municipality or county accepts as recycling (types of paper products, plastics, etc.), and think about every individual item you place in the trash. Also, learn to compost and begin composting your food and yard waste.
Resources: The show Wa$ted on Planet Green, My county's recycling guide.
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Venna Halo feeling confused and feeling tired
Portland certainly makes this easier!
11 months ago
Wow.. what a difference it makes to live in a very pro-recycling city! They offer more recycling bins than trash cans for curb side service! This of course is making my goal so much easier..
What helps this goal though, is another goal of mine, which is to eventually turn just about all reusable items and materials, into some sort of usable treasure or good of some sort.
Hi , everyone
13 months ago
i am so exciting about recycling ,, but i do not know how it could be?
or what is the way to do it , so i choise to be with you and see what can we do together?
i wish be in touch and send a new things about recycling,met you there recylclers
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17 months ago
I’m going to start sorting and recycling anything and everything that is able to be recycled.
Venna Halo feeling confused and feeling tired
Making my own paper
20 months ago
I found a couple of helpful pages on the Internet today with instructions on how to make my own recycled paper!!
It looks relatively straightforward and easy to do. This should help greatly with my quest to recycle everything and waste nothing.
Trust me, I have a long way to go. A lot of times it’s just too easy to not bother with things. But I figure with more creativity and craftiness, I’ll start to see other uses for things. That’s the biggest challenge!
But having my own custom paper will be a blast. And cheap!!
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Much like not tossing things...
2 years ago
Recycle everything in so many words also means not throwing things away. So one of the things I decided to start doing is take inventory of my food stock.
My goal is to have all my pantry and freezer items in a spreadsheet so that I can easily plan meals around them. It makes for a more efficient use of my food and reduces waste.
I’ve also been keeping a separate list for the fridge (as things tend to go faster in the fridge), so I just keep that list on the outside of the fridge door. I also write the date the item should be used by.
This helped a good deal yesterday as I was able to choose sandwiches, vegan potato salad and kale as dinner instead of the oriental dish I was toying with making.
As a result, I was able to save the bunch of kale that was in the fridge. It wasn’t bad, but I could tell that if I was going to wait too much longer that I’d probably have to toss it. No tossing required! yaye
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Recycling
2 years ago
I want to increase the amount of stuff I recycle. When I live in the UK, it is easy as the bin men collect glass, paper, plastic bottles. Here in GVA, I need to make more of an effort to take stuff to work and recycle. Strange as I would have thought Switzerland was ahead of UK on that.
Besides, beer cans and glass
2 years ago
I recycled…clothes. Old clothes. I sent them to the nearest church, for someone else to wear them. And I keep on recycling beer cans and glass.
And during christmas time, I thought about it last. I recycled an old pair of jeans. I made it a tote. Oh well, it looks like a tote.
So much for paper… hum… I think I will start being creative. All I need is a formula, to put it on and then paint it.
We use so much paper at work!
2 years ago
I see so much of it going into the trash instead of the recycle bin.
This month in the Atlantic Monthly there’s a great article about China. It said that, pretty much, the two biggest (only?)things that the US actually exports to CHINA are scrap metal to be recycled and PAPER to be recycled.
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2 years ago
It was kind of a silly reason to start recycling more items, but last winter my city raised the price of garbage bags used for city trash pickup. They became so expensive that my fiancee and I decided to challenge ourselves to make each trash bag last at least 2 weeks.
We started re-thinking all of the things we throw away that could either be recycled or could be replaced in the future by re-usable things. It was amazing how much we reduced the volume of trash that leaves our home – and it wasn’t hard to do at all!
We started using cloth napkins at meals and old cut-up towels to clean with instead of paper towels. We used cloth bags at the grocery store when we remembered to bring them, and returned the plastic bags to the grocery store for recycling when we didn’t. Along with the plastic grocery bags, we put in any kind of plastic wrapper that came with anything. We started composting our food waste. We started using pine pellet cat litter, which can be composted. Overall, we made a ton of little changes that were easy to do, and it has made a huge difference.
