Category: landfill
Spoon-feeding Restaurants the Answers to the Global Waste Crisis
This post originally appeared on Medium. Single-Use plastic cutlery collection in front of Green4Life in Cary, NC. Individuals and organizations around the world are creating campaigns telling restaurants and delivery platforms people do not use, nor want, these take-out “extras.” Habits of [...]
Ways to Reduce Waste for Pet Lovers
Being a pet owner presents a variety of changing responsibilities, and pursuing a low-waste lifestyle can be difficult when owning a pet. Pets require not only love and attention, but they need a series of care items. Food, collars, leashes for walks, beds for leisure, toys for fun, and treats for training or [...]
The Most Eco-Friendly Furniture You Will Ever Find
Reused furniture is the most eco-friendly furniture you will ever find. Here’s why. It takes a lot of energy to make new products from raw materials. Large amount of fossil fuels are needed to extract the raw materials and to manufacture, pack and ship the products. In addition, all these processes generate waste [...]
Carbon Offsetting: In a Nutshell
A few years ago, just at the brink of my eco-journey, I came home and found that my mom had left a book on my bed: Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life by Ed Begley Jr. It complimented the actor’s 2007 reality TV series on HGTV, “Living With Ed”, which [...]
My Green Bin Challenge: Taking Out The Trash!
My 2019 Green Bin Challenge: Taking Out The Trash! Last month, on November 27th, 2019, almost 11 months since I began my “Green Bin Challenge” we pulled the green bin out to the curb for the first time this year! January 1st, 2019, I decided to see how [...]
