How you can help the environment – and your wallet!
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Do you have an old car that’s reached the end of its useful life? Whether you’re getting a new one or have decided to live without a car altogether; make sure you dispose of it properly.
A car contains quite a selection of materials. Some of them are hazardous waste, many of them can be recycled. [...]
Stuff thousands of people into a small area.
Let them eat and drink and make out and enjoy great concerts.
What do you get? A kick ass festival.
And probably a big mess of mud, cigarette butts, food leftovers, pizza boxes, plastic cups, bottles and wrecked camping chairs…
…unless you have a plan for dealing with that mess, of [...]
Here’s the first thing to do if you break one of your CFL light bulbs: Don’t panic.
While there is some mercury in CFLs, your health won’t be ruined just because you break one of them. Or three, for that matter.
That being said, mercury is harmful enough to warrant some extra precautions if you’re unlucky enough [...]
Really. They suck big time. In fact, plastic bags are quite a bit like elevator music:
they seemingly show up everywhere
they hypnotize people into thinking they need them
they make people spend money on stuff they don’t really need
they sort of serve a purpose, but are doing a poor job of it
there are vastly superior alternatives [...]
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This post was tagged with: garbage, plastic, plastic bag pollution, plastic bags, pollution, reusable bags, trash, wasteMercury is bad for you. Very bad. And it’s equally bad for most animals and plants.
CFL light bulbs contain mercury.
That means no-one should buy or use them, right? Wrong. Read on to find out why.
Don’t get me wrong – CFL light bulbs are still hazardous waste. I just think the whole mercury issue has been [...]
Are you the unwilling victim of a constant deluge of junk mail? Is your budget for toys stretched? Does your toddler keep grabbing your newspapers and books to tear them apart?
Do not despair. These problems can all be alleviated in one fell swoop.
Every time a pile of junk mail precipitates its way onto your [...]
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This post was tagged with: children, junk mail, paper, paper recycling, quick_tips, wasteLight bulbs contain toxic heavy metals and other unpleasant substances. Therefore, they should be handled with care and treated as hazardous waste.
For simplicity’s sake, we’ll divide the bulbs into three groups:
Incandescent bulbs
LED bulbs
Everything else
Incandescent bulbs
Incandescent bulbs contain lead levels exceeding hazardous waste limits. If they’re thrown away in the regular garbage, this lead will sooner [...]
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This post was tagged with: CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps, hazardous waste, light bulbs, light sources, lighting, toxins, wasteSubscribe to our posts | Follow us on Twitter
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