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The idea of getting paid to recycle may sound far fetched and you may think the story will end with, “…and they lived happily ever after.”  But that is not the case with a company from Pennsylvania who has come up with the genius idea about how to encourage people to recycle.  The company is [...]

For 43 years I’ve been someone who never really finished the thought; when I throw something away it goes… I’ve given myself a great gift this year; call it a field trip, if you like, but I took myself to my town’s landfill and had my eyes opened for the first time.  Maybe the concept of [...]

We’ve all heard the warnings; acid rain, global warming, landfills without any room, and on and on.  We don’t recycle because it’s the “in” thing to do; we recycle because we don’t have any other options if we plan to leave the planet for generations to come. When you think of recycling you should really think [...]

In an average week how much junk mail comes to your home?  For the average American family, with two adults and two children, they could probably weigh their junk mail at the end of any given week to equal the weight of a small animal.  An average American home can get items from; clearing houses, [...]

How many times have you torn through your closet and come up empty, even though you may have thrumbed through 45 outfits?  The basic idea in recycling is to reuse, right?  So, why do we insist on keeping perfectly good outfits, hanging on a hanger in our closets, when maybe they would be worn by [...]

Recycling has been around longer than any of today’s  young teens have been alive and maybe that’s why recycling has never been a question for them as to whether or not they should recycle but has always been more of a “How else can we help when recycling,” kind of thought process.   My own generation, [...]

With the way technology is out-doing themselves year after year with newer, better, bigger and improved products for computer users, you can just imagine the amount of waste that is generated when consumers upgrade along with the process.  One household may have one or two computers to upgrade on a yearly basis but if you [...]

Have you been bombarded with advertisements and news stories about the desperate shape our planet is in and thought to yourself, “I’m only one person, I can’t even put a dent in what needs to be done to make things better?”  With all of the media coverage on issues like, acid rain, loss of rain [...]

The idea of recycling is to reuse an item rather than toss it into the trash and have it end up filling space in a landfill, right?  Here’s a thought; why not have the waste in the first place?  Are you with me?  How can this be accomplished, you may be asking yourself, and that’s [...]

For the past 25 years the city of Frederick, Maryland, has hosted a street festival in the fall.  This event draws 75,000 people who flock the streets to hear live music, enjoy children’s activities and purchase items made by local artisans.  The event is lacking in only one area: the area of recycling.  For all [...]