#recycling
Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information
How to Reuse (or Discard) Old Pill Bottles | Lifehacker
If you’ve got a collection of old pill bottles cluttering up your medicine cabinet, don’t just toss them in the trash.
Politics | The Hall of Idiots
Lego scraps plan to make bricks from recycled plastic, and the reason is TOO FUNNY
As we are all annoyingly familiar with, the push to 'go green' in every aspect of our lives has been massive in recent years, but it seems that the 'green' activists know very little about what it takes to actually 'go green.' Lego is finding this out the hard way and it's too frickin' funny.
Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information
As Millions of Solar Panels Age Out, Recyclers Hope to Cash In - Yale E360
Solar panels have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years, but they contain valuable metals, including silver and copper. With a surge of expired panels expected soon, companies are emerging that seek to recycle the reusable materials and keep the panels out of land
Miscellaneous | Environment/Climate Change
Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.
Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help
Do I really need to wash my recycling? – eteeshop
Rumor has it that recycling will be sent to the landfill if it’s not clean enough -- but is that true? And how clean does it need to be? Do I really need to scrub all of the residue out of my nut butter jars?
News | In The News
The world’s plastic recycling problem isn’t going away | Coffee House
The world’s plastic recycling problem isn’t going away on Coffee House | In 2015, the problem of marine litter climbed to the very top of the list of global…
Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff
10 Ingenious Ways to Reuse K-Cups | Mental Floss
You don't have to feel guilty every time you use your Keurig machine. After enjoying your coffee, try recycling your K-Cup pods into something new.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Californians are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in recycling deposits
California consumers lost out on at least $308 million in 5-cent deposits on cans and bottles last year, largely because it’s increasingly difficult to find a place to recycle them, a new report says.
News | The News
Recycling: Lots Of It Ends Up In Landfills, Does Little To Help Environment
It has become an article of faith in the U.S. that recycling is a good thing. But evidence is piling up that recycling is a waste of time and money, and a bit of a fraud.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
A Look at One Woman's Effort to Create a National Clearinghouse for Local Recycling Rules
How one California woman started Recycle by City, a website that she hopes to build into a national clearinghouse for local recycling information.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
The American recycling business is a mess: Can Big Waste fix it?
Profits across the industry have been in free fall, due to technical challenges and changes in consumer behavior. Can Waste Management turn things around?
Miscellaneous | Products & Services
The Big List: 49 Smart, Money-Saving Creative Reuse Ideas
We get excited about stylish, functional, and innovative creative reuse ideas, from the myriad ways you can reuse a jar, to uses for chipped tea cups, antique bread bins, vintage card catalogs, bubble wrap, wallpaper scraps, even old gym floorboards. Here
Business & Finance | Business & Finance
It started with a futon in a dumpster. Now it's a student org that's changing the way we see waste.
It sounds so simple, and it's really kind of genius.
Home Improvement | Household Tips & DIY
10 Fun Ways To Upcycle Empty Booze Bottles - Neatorama
Enjoying a libation or ten with friends can be fun, but the next day you're left with a heavy head and a heavy load of bottles and cans to clean up.Depending on how much you and your friends drank the night before you might end up with hundreds of bottles
Science & Technology | Tech
Woman tosses $200,000 Apple 1 computer into recycling - CNET
Technically Incorrect: A recycling center in Silicon Valley is amazed that someone would toss out a rare first-generation Apple computer. It is currently seeking the woman who did it.
Politics | From the HuffPost
Nonprofit Creates Roofs From Recycled Plastic Bottles, Reducing Waste And Creating Jobs At Same Time
Not all roofs are created equal. The material hanging over rural Ecuadorians' homes, for example, is typically built from either grasses -- which attract insects, leak horribly and collapse when water-logged -- or corrugated tin -- ...
Architecture & Interior Design | Decorating & Interior Design
10 Favorites: Vintage Gym Equipment as Decor: Remodelista
Noted recently: vintage sports equipment as decor, for a low-key masculine vibe.
