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Buying Appliances With The Energy Star Rating

We all have appliances that break down or stop working with any kind of effeciency and the question becomes, where do we turn from here Well, I have some suggestions and these suggestions will keep in line with the idea of energy conservation and recycling There are home products and products for the office that have been rated and earned the ENERGY STAR rating, which means that they are w.....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling: Putting An End To Junk Mail

In an average week how much junk mail comes to your home For the average American family, with two adults and two children, they could probably weigh their junk mail at the end of any given week to equal the weight of a small animal An average American home can get items from; clearing houses, credit card offers, insurance offers, lottery winnings, mortgage advertisements and promises of lower.....More on Facts About Recycling

Hotels That Recycle

Are you planning a trip Whether it is a trip for business or pleasure; you have options and with just a little research you can find a hotel that is environmentally friendly! There are "Green" Hotels in which the hotel does all it can in order to recycle, reuse and reduce Some of the ways hotels are becoming environmentally friendly are by letting guests know that they will only clean the.....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling: A Look At New York City

New York City, in just its five boroughs, has a population of over 8 million and in an area smaller than most states; you can just imagine how much waste is created on a daily basis Recycling in New York City is mandatory and has been since July 1989 Before that date, starting in 1986, recycling was voluntary and as it began to catch on, recycling-educating materials from pamphlets, decals to .....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling: Even Bricks Can Be ReUsed!

One of the most innovative ways of recycling materials that have probably been over-looked came in the form of a contractor re-using bricks from a brick wall that needed to be torn down during the construction of an addition to a home The contractor learned his trade from one long time mason worker who believed that if you have brick as part of your building project, it could last forever .....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling: How You Can Make An Impact

Have you been bombarded with advertisements and news stories about the desperate shape our planet is in and thought to yourself, "Iand#39;m only one person, I canand#39;t even put a dent in what needs to be done to make things better" With all of the media coverage on issues like, acid rain, loss of rain forests, endangered animals, the depleting ozone layer and even former Vice President Al Goreand#39;s pet proj.....More on Facts About Recycling

Ideas For Family Travel

Traveling with the family can be a joyous experience and there is no reason to leave your recycling attitudes at home; you can do your part even when youand#39;re far from the comforts of home When youand#39;re staying in a hotel or BandB, let the management of the hotel know that you will be reusing your towels and there is no need to have the bed linens changed daily With a family, towels can get mixed .....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling At An Annual Festival

For the past 25 years the city of Frederick, Maryland, has hosted a street festival in the fall This event draws 75,000 people who flock the streets to hear live music, enjoy childrenand#39;s activities and purchase items made by local artisans The event is lacking in only one area: the area of recycling For all of its years in existence the festival has never had the means to take on the task of .....More on Facts About Recycling

Recycling Our Closets

How many times have you torn through your closet and come up empty, even though you may have thrumbed through 45 outfits The basic idea in recycling is to reuse, right So, why do we insist on keeping perfectly good outfits, hanging on a hanger in our closets, when maybe they would be worn by someone else This basic, simple idea is one we should keep in mind when we find ourselves frustrated .....More on Facts About Recycling

Keeping The Environment Safe From Harmful Chemicals

Think about recycling and maybe the first thing to pop into your head isnand#39;t damage thatand#39;s done to the earth when we use products with harmful chemicals, but thatand#39;s part of the cycle, too As well as reducing waste, recycling products and reusing what can be reused, protecting the earth from harm is all a part of the same cause Itand#39;s not something we set out to do, at the beginning of the day; .....More on Facts About Recycling

What If You could Be Paid To Recycle

The idea of getting paid to recycle may sound far fetched and you may think the story will end with, "and they lived happily ever after" But that is not the case with a company from Pennsylvania who has come up with the genius idea about how to encourage people to recycle The company is called RecycleBank and itand#39;s a Philadelphia-based private company that has a very high tech idea about how.....More on Facts About Recycling

Easy Ways to Recycle

When you think of recycling do you sigh and think that you just donand#39;t have the time or energy to do it Do you see visions of hundreds of thousands of empty plastic bottles in some far-away factory getting ready to be melted down Do you think that recycling is something that has to be hard; otherwise if itand#39;s not hard, then it doesnand#39;t count Iand#39;m embarrassed to say that at one time, these were t.....More on Facts About Recycling