Since I have six cats, I have an endless supply of plastic cat litter jugs. It’s nice that I can drop them off at the local recycling bins instead of putting them in the trash. Since they’re nice big containers with lids, though, I always keep a few. They’re handy to use around the house, ...
Coffee cans have greatly evolved over the years. They used to be made of metal. They had sharp edges and plastic lids, but these days they are completely made of recyclable plastic, and some even have handles. They seem too good to throw away or even toss into the recycling bin. The high price of ...
In many American communities, citizens can recycle clear plastic milk jugs. Usually, the clear jugs that are marked with a “2” and “HDPE” (stands for high-density polyethylene) are accepted. All you have to do is discard the lids, rinse out the jugs, squash them with your foot, and place them in the nearest recycling bin. ...
Imagine the number of bread bags you have emptied in the course of your lifetime thus far. Use just two loaves of bread each week and this would amount to 4,472 empty bread bags in a period of 43 years. That is a staggering number of empty plastic bread bags that could have been reused, ...
In our daily life, apart from other plastics we use, plastic bottles have a big role. Because of their light weight and non-breakable nature, these are preferred by many people, almost all people. These are not easily breakable like glass bottles. This is used by all as a common product. Even though many people does ...
One of the ways that I have tried to be ecologically correct over the years is to request paper bags at the grocery store rather than plastic. Plastic is made from petroleum products, after all, so paper bags are the most ecologically correct, right? And, of course, paper is always recyclable and plastic recycling is ...
