In today’s increasingly environmentally-conscious world, it is the responsibility of everyone to ensure we minimise needless waste by recycling and reusing as much as possible. However, this doesn’t just extend to reusing the same plastic bags when [...]
Here it is: Every piece of plastic ever made still exists today. In fact, it will be just under a millennium before the first plastics ever produced will biodegrade completely. Each year, we just make more of the stuff. In 2015 alone, about 300 [...]
The general public would be a far more willing to recycle something like a plastic bottle if their doing so actually resulted in some value for them. Organizations like Recyclebank already use this reward to encourage positive environmental actions, [...]
Do you want to save money? If so, then you should certainly consider using alternative energy. Arguably the most important benefit is that you can do your part to help conserve the Earth’s natural resources, and reduce the planet’s [...]
It’s one of those things you probably take for granted, but the process of recycling aluminum cans is made more difficult with the use of colors, like those found on the outside of a can of Coca-Cola, for instance. Not only that, but the process of [...]
Hand-written letters are a thing of the past, unfortunately. Nowadays, the only thing you’ll get in the mail is marketing leaflets and parcels. The marketing leaflets are usually a complete and utter waste, and we all sigh when we see them [...]
Have you ever needed quick access to some rope or twine around the home but not had any on hand? At that point, what would be easier: making a trip to the local hardware store, or taking a plastic bottle from your recycling bin and quickly making [...]
Single-serve coffee cups designed for machines like Keurig and Tassimo are everywhere now, but – as we’ve pointed out before – they are terrible for the environment. Homes and businesses around the world have quickly transitioned away from brewing [...]
According to statistics, Americans alone throw away 70 million tons of packaging every year, that’s 140,000,000,000,000 lbs of waste! Label designer and Pratt Institute student, Aaron Mickelson, thinks he’s found the solution – packaging that [...]
Of all the challenges humans face today, one of our most daunting is the eternal buildup of sold waste from our “disposable society.” This problem is relatively new when compared to the rest of our short history on this globe. Yet it has taken only [...]
