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17Feb

“How to keep used and unwanted clothes out of landfill”

Keep your old clothes from filling up a landfill by instead repairing, donating, recycling, or reselling them.

15Feb

Why recycle? It reduces waste, is good for the environment, gives “trash” a second life in a new product, and helps the economy.

10Feb

Consumers can recycle Dial soap packaging via a new partnership that the company has set up with @TerraCycle.

09Feb

Consumers in Oregon, which has a bottle bill, recycle 85% of aluminum cans—2X the rate of Washington state, which has no such legislation.

03Feb

@BuyNothing groups have sprung up the world over, where people donate items such as chicken poo, toilet paper tubes and aquarium wastewater.

01Feb

@HomeDepot will recycle your old CFL light bulbs, while @StaplesStores will recycle your ink cartridge and @hmusa will recycle old linens.

27Jan

Plastic bags and wraps generally cannot be recycled curbside because they jam the processing equipment at recycling centers.

25Jan

To avoid landfilling old clothes: follow cleaning instructions to lengthen their life; keep them in repair; recycle them at the end of life.

20Jan

Psychological factors such as peer pressure play an important role in making recycling a habit, a @RecycleCartons study has revealed.

18Jan

@RealCalifMilk has launched a campaign to ensure plastic milk jugs made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), or #2 plastic, are recycled.

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