Most people owning a home have a garage or storage shed with one to many old bicycles that are just collecting dust. The homeowner usually takes the bicycles to the landfill when he or she decides to move instead of considerations for their recycling and reuse. Bicycles are probably the easiest to consider for recycling [...]
Image via Wikipedia The global business economy is going through an adjustment period due to events like the collapse of the real estate market and tightening of credit. The bottom line is that this crisis will eventually affect many and people will be searching for ways to pinch every single cent while creating sustainable income. [...]
Imagine that if at the grocery store the person bagging your purchases left empty, unused spaces in each bag causing you to carry 10 instead of 5 bags out to your car then into your home. You would be investing some extra time, energy and space when it was unnecessary. Now transfer that thought to the waste and recycling industry. Instead of filling a trash bag or bin with large empty spaces, we can all do some simple acts to help…
The International Creative Recycling Festival! Barcelona hosts this annual gathering of artists, performers and activists as they gather and create interesting, novel and artistic things to do with items that were headed for the trash heap.
Americans dispose of more than 700 billion pounds of paper, glass, plastic, wood, food, metal, clothing, electronics and other refuse annually.