Tag Archives: Reuse

According to the EPA waste increases by nearly 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years- accounting for a million tons per week of additional garbage.  Let that sink in a little bit- one MILLION tons per week!!! Most of this is wrapping, bows, boxes, gift bags, etc.  YIKES!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately most gift wrap cannot be recycled- only […]

Did you know the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) estimates that 2 BILLION disposable razors a year are thrown away?!?! I can’t even wrap my mind around what that looks like.  Those razors are most likely never going to breakdown- and that doesn’t even count the disposable razor blade heads on refillable razors! Fortunately, there are […]

We’ve officially crossed the halfway point in our “Waste Less and Be Green in 2015” challenge.  Welcome to the second half of the year!!  How is the challenge going for you so far?  I’m curious how many weeks you’ve completed and what changes you’ve seen in your life?  I hope it’s been a positive journey […]

Our society is dumpster-happy.  Millions of items are thrown away every day that are perfectly useable.  I live in a 3rd floor apartment and can see into our dumpster and my heart breaks over the items I see thrown out.  This week we’re going to look at another “R”-  we’ve covered reduce, we’ve covered refuse, […]

Last week we looked at the new “R” in the reduce, reuse, recycle phrase of “refuse.”  This week we’re going to talk about “recycle.”  This whole “Waste Less and Be Green in 2015” series has focused heavily on reducing.  It is my hope that by the end of the year you’ll have significantly reduced your […]

We’re all familiar with the “three Rs” of reduce, reuse, recycle.  Recently a 4th “R” has been popping up among Zero Waste bloggers: “refuse”- refuse excess packaging, refuse free samples you don’t need, refuse excess waste… etc. This one is really hard for me to do.  I’m a sucker for free samples.  Those cute tiny […]