by dave | Jul 1, 2012 | Staff Column
Back to the tips. Want to REALLY help out? Share this knowledge with your friends! If you share it with three friends (Pay It Forward style), and they each share it with three friends, how many iterations before we reach the entire globe (assuming no overlap)? 21....
by dave | Jul 1, 2012 | Staff Column
Back to the tips. Gift-giving can be a hassle for both you and the environment. Each year in the U.S., we throw away nearly 4 million tons of trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags. Further more, according to the Recycler’s Handbook, nearly half of the paper...
by dave | Jul 1, 2012 | Staff Column
Back to the tips. Each year, over 650,000 tons of phone books are left at the front door our America’s 100+ million households. According to the EPA, only about 20% of these phone books (117,000 tons) are recycled. It can cost between $50 and $75 to recycle each...
by dave | Jul 1, 2012 | Staff Column
Back to the tips. Got weeds? Don’t want to sprinkle poisons on your lawn? Give vinegar a try! The acetic acid in vinegar will help draw the moisture out of weeds. However, vinegar is a contact killer, and does not discriminate – carefully target the weeds...
by dave | Jul 1, 2012 | Staff Column
Back to the tips. Do you like cold showers? No? Well, your clothes don’t seem to mind. In fact, switching to cold water for your laundry can save you up to $100 per year. That is because 90% of the energy used by a washing machine goes towards heating the water....
