Recycling: Where to Start
WHERE TO START:
- The materials that recycling centers accept vary from region to region, so check your municipality’s website or phone book for details.
- Earth 911 is the best place to find local recyclers, plus recycling news and advice.
- General recycling tips can be researched online.
- For unusual items, check out How Can I Recycle This?, which offers recycling tips for anything from karate belts to television wires.
- And don’t forget that recycling can earn you some cash in certain states.
- Some items should not be recycled as they do more harm than good. The list includes pizza boxes, wet paper, and more.
BON JOVI Goes Eco-Friendly With New Shirts
New Jersey rockers BON JOVI are getting set to release their 11th studio record, The Circle, on November 10TH. To help build up the hype, the band has gone eco-friendly with a new line of Green merchandise.
The new line of t-shirts, called the Bon Jovi Green Line, offers affordable shirts made of either organic cotton or a type of polyester made from recycled Mountain Dew bottles. The shirts, priced at $30 US come in two flavors: an Eco-Friendly Organic T-Shirt or an Eco-Friendly Recycled T-Shirt.
The organic shirt is made of 100% Organic Combed Ring Spun Cotton and is rated 4.5oz Certified Organic Cotton, while the recycled shirt offers something a bit more exciting. The light green Eco-Friendly Recycled T-Shirt is made of 65% Recycled Polyester from PET bottles / 35% Recycled Cotton. One recycled t-shirt is made from approximately 8.5 recycled bottles and will dry in half the time of a normal shirt. The band asks buyers to hang dry the shirt if possible, because it’s better for the environment. The shirt gets its green color from the Mountain Dew bottles.
Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles every 10 minutes and 1 million recycled plastic bottles saves 3.8 barrels of oil and eliminates 180 metric tons of CO2. 10% of all US oil is used to make plastics.
Start the School Year Off Green!
Going green has become an important priority for schools all over the country. While teachers and administrators are doing plenty to instill green values into school curricula and infrastructure, the best place to teach kids what to do at school, is…well at home!
Consider these tips for helping kids to take a few steps forward when it comes to going green as the new school year starts:
Ride the bus to school
Even if you do not usually take the school bus, consider taking a public bus to school. It is one of the most eco-friendly options for getting to and from school. According to Terra Wellington, author of the book “A Mom’s Guide to Growing Your Family Green, Saving the Earth begins at Home,” one school bus takes 36 cars off the road reducing fuel usage and emissions. The daily fuel cost to transport a child to school is $3.68 for a private vehicle but only $.73 if that child rides a school bus.
Pack a low waste lunch
You can save money and reduce waste by packing your child’s lunch in reusable bags and containers. For a “no waste” lunch, plan such that the only compostible items are left over, such as fruit peels.
Take an ENSO bottle to school
While it’s easy to send your kids to school with bottled water, bear in mind that most plastic water bottles do not biodegrade and simply pollute our environment and plug up our landfills. However, ENSO bottles change all that and are designed to break down in aerobic (compost) and anaerobic (landfill) environments, plus ENSO bottles are recyclable! Best of all, ENSO bottles can be used for “Show and Tell” to amaze the teacher and impress the friends by talking about its many eco-friendly properties.
By Scot R
ENSO Bottles, LLC
866-936-3676
Web: www.ensobottles.com
One Step to Success
The other night I was helping my daughter with her math homework. She was frustrated and overwhelmed with the amount of problems and the difficulty level. After several hours of this, she stopped cold in her tracks. “I am not going to do this anymore, this is too hard, there are way too many problems and I don’t even know how to solve them! I might as well just quit.”
Can your company pass the “Sniff” test?
Nestlé expecting sustainability-savvy suppliers
By Mike Verespej
CHICAGO (Nov. 21, 4:15 p.m. ET) — There are a lot of things companies can do that create an appearance of being green and sustainable. But Kim Jeffery wants to do things that actually enhance sustainability and the environment.
“Are you trying to look good, or are you trying to do good?” asked the president and chief executive officer of Nestlé Waters North America, in a Nov. 6 interview during Sustain ’08 in Chicago.
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