Prior to purchasing a plant for your home or garden, make sure to search the web about its metabolic characteristics. You may be surprised what you find out. Plants not only remove toxins from the soil, but remove toxins from the air as well. Plants add beauty to your home and improve the air quality too.

If you are interested in improving the air quality of your home, I suggest you read this book. I use this book to purchase plants for my home. The common indoor plants featured in the book are all rated for their ability to remove toxins from the air. The informaiton is all based on plant studies conducted by NASA. This is one book you are sure to refer to many times.

All around the world, communities are plagued by the contamination of heavy metals. Toxic leftovers from mining, manufacturing and application of metal laden fertilizers and pesticides, these metals do not degrade, but remain intact forever. (more…)

Keep recycling top of mind. Download recycling themed games, software, and apps. These digital tools will help you manage your recycling effort and provide amusement too.

Help keep our waterways clean. Always recycle plastic bottles and fishing line during your waterside recreational activities. If a recycling bin is not available at your waterside location, please make sure to carry away the unwanted plastic items for proper recycling. Keeping a foldable, reusable shopping bag in your car or bike pouch can help you to easily cart the recyclables.

Let Congress know you support a cap on green house gas emissions, text message: EDF to 30644

You’ll be heard in Washington. -R.G.

Help to decrease energy waste and lower CO2 emissions by making sure your PC has a spam filter. Use the power settings on your PC to power it down when appropriate. Every PC user who wisely manages their power usage will contribute greatly to saving energy and decreasing green house gas emissions. -R.G.

Getting a school recycling program off the ground seems like an easy task, but all sorts of issues can arise. To help make your effort seamlessly implementable and successful, I’ve put together a few pointers (or at least a few questions you can hash over) before you start. (more…)

Visit www.aveda.com to locate the nearest plastic bottle cap drop off location. Strive to collect your plastic bottle caps and recycle them with Aveda. Taking one more step in your recycling efforts will help to keep these plastic polluters out of our landfills and waterways. Recycle caps and save marine life!

Plastic as a Recycling Foundation

Is the time right for MRF World to take plastics more seriously? Should plastics be at the forefront of curbside recycling? Just as co-mingling of recyclables has made collection at curbside easier, the co-mingling of information on recovered materials may provide some answers. Trust me. We are not mixing apples and oranges; the markets do share some interesting parallels. (more…)

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