November 23, 2013

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Four Steps to Recycling and Composting at Your Thanksgiving Dinner

                                                  

Want to have as little waste as possible when Thanksgiving Dinner comes to a close? Follow these simple steps and you'll minimize waste in a festive way!

 

1. Collect two old metal trashcans. You may have some around your house or you can usually find them at junk shops or online.

 

2. Spray paint the trash cans using a low VOC, nontoxic spray paint. Pick a festive Thanksgiving color like brown, gold or orange.

 

3. On the lids, use a nontoxic paint to write "Recyclables" on one and "Food and Paper" on the other. 

 

4. Line the cans with a compostable, biodegradable garbage bag. You can head over to our sister store LeafyClean to check out our Bio Bags collection for product ideas. 

 

5. Place them in the kitchen or another easy-to-access area.

 

Let guests know about your collection bins and then watch as they use them! At the end of the party, you'll have one bag ready for your composting pile or collection station and one for the recycling bins!

                     

                               Tall Kitchen Bio Bags, 13 Gallons - 12  Bags per Box

                 

October 24, 2013

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Six Fun Things to Do with Halloween Candy Wrappers

                              

After trick-or-treating, you and your kids will have a mountain of candy to enjoy, and when that's been enjoyed, you'll have a massive stash of wrappers on your hands. Instead of throwing them away, try one of these fun Halloween candy wrapper crafts.

 

1. Candy Environments - Blog Me Mom has an adorable candy landscape project that is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. This craft also incorporates candies, so you can put any of those items that your kids aren't keen to munch to good use, too.

 

2. Candy Wrapper Flowers - Kimberly Burkard at Ganondagan has a tutorial for making gorgeous flowers for an arrangement out of old candy wrappers.

 

3. Candy Belt - Stop over at Lil Blue Boo to learn how to incorporate candy wrappers with a boring belt to create a one-of-a-kind accessory.

 

4. Candy Wrapper Bracelet - Erin Bassett has a cute charm bracelet idea on the Imaginisce Blog that is perfect for making with kids.

 

5. Candy Wrapper Button Earrings - Expand you or your daughter's jewelry collection with these adorable earrings on Creative Itch.

 

6. Candy Wrapper House - Leave it to Martha Stewart to create an adorable play house out of candy wrappers.

 

There you have it; a round up of six projects to put that candy wrapper waste to good use. Have a favorite from another site? Post a link in the "Comments" section.  

                                

 

May 06, 2013

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Take Mom on a Green Picnic for Mother's Day

Looking for something fun to do with Mom on Mother's Day? Because restaurants are always so crowded on that special day of the year, why not head out to a nearby park, beach or forest and enjoy a picnic? Mom is sure to love not having to cook for the day, and you can enjoy time together and the beauty of nature at the same time.

Here are a few tips that you can use to keep your picnic eco-friendly:

- Bike or walk to your picnic site if possible to save gasoline and make your day even more special.

- Select organic produce and antibiotic meats and poultry for your picnic lunch. Bring along some Eat Cleaner wipes to clean off apples, berries or other fruits before you eat.

 

- Take a large basket for foods that will stay fresh without being refrigerated and pack cold items in the OOTS! eco-friendly light blue lunch box.


 

- Use Bambu Veneerware plates in place of paper or plastic and bring along a roll of Bambooee bamboo towels to use instead of paper napkins. 


                        

 

- Instead of plastic silverware, pick up the To-Go Ware Utensils Set, which includes five complete sets with a fork, knife, spoon and chopsticks. The utensils are washable, reusable and fashioned out of bamboo. You can give them to Mom to take home as a gift after your picnic is through. 



 

- Take your trash with you when you and then go and drop it off for composting or take it home to your own compost pile.

 

Do you have any green picnicking tips that you'd like to share? We'd love to hear them, so post them in the comments section
December 27, 2012

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What to Do with Holiday Waste

 With another Christmas come and gone, we're all still recovering from the family gatherings, the holiday parties, the food and all that shopping. As you relax and look forward to the New Year, don't forget about taking the time to properly see to all that holiday waste.

Here are some easy green tips that you can follow to minimize the impact of holiday waste.

- Packing Peanuts - Online shoppers wind up with a huge amount of packing peanuts throughout the holiday season. If you ever send gifts via mail or sell items on eBay, you can save these in a dry, cool area for future use. If you have no use for the packaging materials, you can drop them off at many copy and shipping centers, including most UPS stores nationwide.

 - Wrapping - Wrapping paper, boxes and bows can nearly all be recycled. It's also perfectly fine to reuse wrapping for next year's gifts. If you're crafty, you can even fashion patchwork wrapping paper "quilts" out of scraps from this year's gifts.

 - Greeting Cards - If you don't save Christmas cards for sentimental reasons, why not cut them up and use them for gift tags next holiday season? You can also recycle unwanted cards.

 - Christmas Trees - Although Christmas trees are biodegradable, when you simply put them out for the trash, you're contributing to overcrowding in landfills. If you have a wood chipper, you can use your tree to make mulch, or you can check iRecycle for businesses in your area that will pick-up your Christmas tree or accept drop-offs for recycling.

- Food Scraps - If you overachieved on the amount of food prepared for your holiday party, throw away as little as possible. Consider purchasing a composting bin to start an organic garden in the spring. You can also freeze many prepared foods to enjoy on cold winter evenings when you don't feel like cooking.

 

How do you deal with holiday waste? Share your tips in the Comments section!


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