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How to Encourage Recycling in Your Home

You may have already begun your carbon footprint-reducing journey, but now you may be wondering how you can make a bigger difference. The easiest answer to that question is to get others involved. Whether that means your family and friends,…
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What Determines If Something Can Be Recycled?

When you’re sorting through your recyclables, you probably already have a system. You sort by material, right? Plastic goes with plastic, paper goes with paper, etc. In reality, what makes something recyclable is much more complicated than…
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How to Encourage Workplace Recycling

Encourage Workplace Recycling Whether you work in a small office or in a large retail store, a recycling program can make a huge impact. Many workplaces have recycling bins available to employees and customers, but oftentimes just providing…
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Tips to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that come from a product. This includes the production, use, and waste of each product. A person or business’s carbon footprint is how much greenhouse gas emissions they are creating…
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The 4 R’s and What They Really Mean

The Four 'R's in Relation to Recycling Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know how important it is right now to cut down our waste as a species. There is garbage infesting our waterways, suffocating our wildlife, and polluting…
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What Do the Numbers on Plastics Mean?

In an average American home, you can find tons and tons of single-use, recyclable plastic. We store our produce in it, we get our take-out food in it, even our pets toys come in plastic packaging. But, if you look closely at each of these different…