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Residential Garbage & Recycling Tips to Follow

Recycling is a great way to help preserve the planet and everyone plays a role in the process. However, without managing your garbage and recycling properly, you might be doing more harm than good. The following are five tips to follow along…
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Best Sustainable Practices for Recycling Clothes

When you have a garbage bag full of unwanted clothes, you may be tempted to toss it in the dumpster and call it a day. While this might seem like the best option in terms of convenience, there are plenty of other convenient options that are…
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5 Types of Waste

Most people think there’s just garbage and recycling, but in order to properly dispose of the waste we generate, it’s helpful to know about the different types of waste. Organic/Food Waste/Compostable Cooking meals at home can be healthier…
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Recycling Contamination

The goal of recycling is to keep materials out of landfills, using them to create new products instead of adding more trash to the world. One of the biggest barriers to recycling is contamination. Improperly recycled materials can cause a whole…
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Recycling Facts

Recycling is one of the easiest and best ways to get involved in the eco-friendly movement. Taking out a few minutes of each day to sort through your plastic and paper waste to get them into the right bins can make a huge difference. Get your…
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How to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly

After a crazy 2020, we’ve all gotten a lot more familiar with the inside of our houses. You may have noticed that the inside of your home has come environmentally-friendly lacking areas. Whether that is the windows that obviously leak air,…
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Eco-friendly Gardening Ideas

As temperatures warm up here in central Minnesota, people with green thumbs are starting to think about gardening. Since there is only a short window to get that beautiful garden up and running in your yard, starting the planning process early…
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Sustainable Spring Cleaning

The last few weeks in central Minnesota sure have felt a lot like spring. With spring comes everyone’s favorite activity, spring cleaning! Opening those windows, letting in fresh air, and releasing the dust bunnies that have been hiding out…
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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…