Category: landfill
My Green Bin Challenge: 6 months in!
My Green Bin Challenge: 6 months in! - By - Leigh Williams July, 2019 It has been a long since I have updated on my Green Bin Challenge! I haven’t abandoned the project (although things have gotten a bit more difficult) just got super busy! It seems like things [...]
In Search Of A Zero Waste Tea
Back in March 2018, we conducted a survey through our Toward Zero Waste Facebook Groups regarding tea packaging. One of our members had begun to find tea packaging sized plastic in her finished compost and realized that some her tea packaging waste was clearly not zero waste! Remains of composted tea envelopes (bottom [...]
My 2019 Green Bin Challenge
My 2019 Green Bin Challenge - By - Leigh Williams January 16, 2019 For 2019, I have decided to challenge myself! Actually, maybe it’s not so much a challenge, as an assessment. For the last 3 years, I have been chipping away at how much garbage my family [...]
China Says “No More!”
By: Dee Gilmore You might have heard that China doesn't want to be the "world's garbage dump" anymore. I can't blame them. According to a New York Times article China processed 7.3 million tons of the world's paper, plastic and metal last year. China's recent refusal to continue to accept the world's [...]
Your returned gifts might not end up back on a shelf!
By: Greg Couch Like millions of other Americans, I spent part of the day after Christmas braving traffic and crowds to do a little shopping. My trip had nothing to do with returning a gift, instead, I thought I would spend part of my day doing a few projects around the [...]
