One good reason to recycle plastic is that there is just so much of it.
Plastics are used to manufacture an incredible number of products we use every day, such as beverage and food containers, trash bags and grocery bags, plastic cups and utensils, children’s toys and diapers, and bottles for everything from mouthwash and shampoo [...]
Recycling helps you save money and protect the environment. It gives valuable resources another life while reducing the waste that goes into landfills.
Depending on what you have to recycle, there are various ways of disposing of goods and materials for recycling:
in public recycling bins in the inner city
in weekly recycling collections throughout the city
in the [...]
Every little bit is a step to help save the earth.
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Change to Fluorescent Bulbs – If every house in the United States changed all of the light bulbs in [...]
Ideas on how you can help the environment in 2010
Around your home
Turn off any lights or appliances in your house you don’t need on. This includes the play station and wii consoles.
Have shorter showers (three to four minutes) or have baths.
Recycle as much as you can. Really think about something before throwing [...]
Nina Shen Rastogi from Slate asks the question “What to do when you forget the rules?”
I wonder about this one when I’m sorting kitchen waste: If you don’t know whether something is recyclable, what’s the best approach? Is it better to put the inscrutable item in the blue recycling bin, or should you just throw [...]
Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility — it’s a privilege. In that spirit, HowStuffWorks came up with 10 things you can do [...]