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5 Tips That You Might Not Have Known About Recycling
It's amazing when you start
looking around all of the great information on recycling that is
available. The problem is there is so much information it becomes overwhelming.
My goal is to share with you 5 tips that you might not have know about recycling. These are things you should know to be abetter recycler.
below, they have great pictures and tell you what can be done with the item
after it's been recycled.
Go to:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/recycling-symbols-plastics-460321
impurities, including food scraps, that must be separated from the glass,
plastic, tin or aluminum to ensure a high quality material that will be used in
a new product.
Go to:
http://www.epspackaging.org/info.html (under locations download PDF)
Don't forget most of the neighborhood shipping centers like (UPS Stores) will take
your clean shipping peanuts.
The link below is for a company Costco works with and they will pay the shipping
for the old product to their warehouse.
Based on the estimated value they will give you a Costco gift card for
that amount.
http://costcotrades.greensight.com/Common/equiptypes.aspx?SiteXfrMsg=0
The other program is Game Stop
GameStop will trade in your old games and systems. Just bring everything to them and they will give you a quote for a new system. My daughter just got a new Nintendo and it was surprising how much she saved by trading her old one in.
http://www.gamestop.com/
There are many different ways to recycle clothes:
Trade Them on sites like www.uanditrade.com. This site is the best site for parents to trade their families used items. I say this because I am the Co-Founder of the site. Trading items with other people online is great because your network of available items is that much greater. The site is free for members to use and no
money is ever exchanged between members.
Another option is to donate them to a woman's shelter. They are always in need of clothes for moms and children. Most moms have come to them with just the clothes they are wearing.
Other options include consignment stores, donating to a thrift store or giving them
to a friend. Whatever you do, just make
sure they go to someone who will use them.
I hope you find thisinformation helpful and useful in your day to day recycling habits. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would love to know about them.
available. The problem is there is so much information it becomes overwhelming.
My goal is to share with you 5 tips that you might not have know about recycling. These are things you should know to be abetter recycler.
-
Know Your Plastics - Not all
plastics are made the same the little numbers that go with the
recycle symbol really are
telling you something. I know how
tough these things are to read, do these companies try to make it hard on
us?
below, they have great pictures and tell you what can be done with the item
after it's been recycled.
Go to:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/recycling-symbols-plastics-460321
- inse Your Containers- It sounds simple but how many times have you thrown something away that could have been easily rinsed and recycled?
impurities, including food scraps, that must be separated from the glass,
plastic, tin or aluminum to ensure a high quality material that will be used in
a new product.
-
Styrofoam-
Did you know that this can now be recycled? I had no clue until I started doing some
research on it. This stuff is some
of the worst stuff on earth and just think how much space it takes in the
landfills.
Go to:
http://www.epspackaging.org/info.html (under locations download PDF)
Don't forget most of the neighborhood shipping centers like (UPS Stores) will take
your clean shipping peanuts.
-
Computers (E-Waste) - Everyone has
to have the
fastest, best new gadget right! I
am very guilty of this and always want the new model. Until recently I would just sit on my old
stuff or sell it on an auction site.
But now I have started to trade it in.
The link below is for a company Costco works with and they will pay the shipping
for the old product to their warehouse.
Based on the estimated value they will give you a Costco gift card for
that amount.
http://costcotrades.greensight.com/Common/equiptypes.aspx?SiteXfrMsg=0
The other program is Game Stop
GameStop will trade in your old games and systems. Just bring everything to them and they will give you a quote for a new system. My daughter just got a new Nintendo and it was surprising how much she saved by trading her old one in.
http://www.gamestop.com/
-
Clothes- Think of all the stuff in
your closet,
your kid's closet; how much are they really wearing? What fits what doesn't fit? When you start to think about it most
people wear about 35% of their total wardrobe.
There are many different ways to recycle clothes:
Trade Them on sites like www.uanditrade.com. This site is the best site for parents to trade their families used items. I say this because I am the Co-Founder of the site. Trading items with other people online is great because your network of available items is that much greater. The site is free for members to use and no
money is ever exchanged between members.
Another option is to donate them to a woman's shelter. They are always in need of clothes for moms and children. Most moms have come to them with just the clothes they are wearing.
Other options include consignment stores, donating to a thrift store or giving them
to a friend. Whatever you do, just make
sure they go to someone who will use them.
I hope you find thisinformation helpful and useful in your day to day recycling habits. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would love to know about them.
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