UNDER PRESSURE FROM SPONSOR, AMERICAN IDOL PULLS PLUG ON PLASTIC PSA, Forbes Magazine, 11/8/11, Forbes reports that 11 contestants of American Idol Season 10 want you to REFUSE disposable plastic. A big time Idol sponsor – possibly Coca Cola, is objecting to the YouTube PSA. The two minute short film created [...]
Though I get a lot of pleasure from my big time reading habit, I seriously object to the large amount of waste the publishing industry and their advertisers create. Imagine if every periodical carried the following footer: “Please share and recycle!” and utilized recycled content paper and low impact inks. [...]
Paper makes up 17.3% of California’s and 16.3% of Sonoma County’s discard stream. Much of it is single use reading materials - newspapers, magazines and books. We all take this mountain of short-term gratification for granted - but it doesn’t have to be so… mountainous. With a little effort we [...]
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Ever wonder what to do with a pair of eyeglasses or sunglasses you no longer need? Reuse and recycling options are available via 17 Lions Club International programs in the US and at least 6 in other countries. The official Western US Lions Club International Recycling Center is located in Vallejo, CA.
From Out-Of-Touch To Up-To-Date In One Day! Since 1996, the Northern California Recycling Association has been conducting annual one-day conferences that bring the best of what's "new and different" in recycling and related fields. Considered one of the best conferences in the country, it often attracts more than 200 people from all [...]
Even if you use a debit card, autopay and on-line checks, I bet you still write a few paper checks a month. When it's time to order your next batch of checks, it's worth considering environmentally friendly options. Not only do they convey a message of environmental responsibility to the banking [...]
In honor of office holiday parties, tomorrow, the Thursday before Christmas, is National Regifting Day. Money Management International (MMI) suggests that you turn your gift exchange into a regifting party. "In case you are hesitant to break tradition, you can rest assured that the majority (60%) of people think that regifting is becoming more accepted; the top two reasons are to save some green."
A torturous form of delayed gratification, wrapped gifts cultivate excitement and wonder. Yet nowadays gift wrap can be quite pricey and is often made with non-recyclable plasticized or metallic paper. Careful unwrapping and reuse helps but ultimately it ends up in the landfill. If it is placed in the recycling it must be sorted out at the recycling center. I imagine the paper sorters dread Christmas. Can you imagine miles and miles of smushed wrapping paper mixed with plastic bags, rubber bands and tape?
White Elephant Gift Exchange/Game A great inter-generational activity that creates life-long memories, white elephant exchanges involve gifting no longer wanted items to-be-determined friends and relatives. Many families and groups prefer this to one-on-one exchanges since they minimize the expense and effort involved in personalized gift giving, and the game brings [...]