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Be in with a chance to win a bokashi bin! This will help you reduce food waste, recycle more and gain some valuable compost for your plants.

SIGG reusable water bottles teams up with Stop Global Warming to bring us this great “I Am Not Plastic” bottle.  Stop Global Warming gets all of the net proceeds from the sales of this bottle.

Do you notice people throwing recyclables into the trash at work or school? They might not be doing it because they’re oblivious to the environmental impact. They might be throwing that bottle into the trash out of pure convenience. At my workplace, we have an aluminum collection bin, but nowhere to put glass, plastic, or cardboard. So where does it all end up?

BabyEarth, a baby products retailer and specialty store with an eco-friendly flair, is now giving shoppers a free recycled tote bag. If you're in Austin, TX, check them out! www.babyearth.com

It is true that you can recycle anything, and make a profit. Consider prisons, which are probably the last places on Earth most of us would want to spend the night. Instead of demolishing these building when they get out of commission, clever entrepreneurs have converted notoriously terrifying prisons into luxurious 5 star hotels where you can cozily enjoy a stay. Without changing the old look, they have kept the wrought iron stairwell and many of the original jail bars and bare walls.

I like this story because it gives you the skinny on electronic companies and their recycling policies. Plus it is kind of fun to read too.

While searching for information on how various recycling processes work, I noticed each of the websites had their only little interesting factoids or quips about their niche of recycling. I decided to put together this list of the 20 or so most interesting recycling facts I found during my search.

What type of light bulbs should be recycled? Resources to find your local Compact Fluorescent Light bulb recycling center. How and why we should recycle light bulbs.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are promoted because they use up to 75% less energy, last longer and cost less over time than incandescent bulbs. The average household reduces its energy budget by $12 to $20 a month using compact fluorescents.

Okay so there really isn’t anything left to be said for this guy, but I’m gonna do it again in hopes that other musicians will catch on and I will have more to talk about. Some celebrities have demands when they are in certain situations, they can sometimes be referred to as “Diva’s” for this due to how ridiculous some requests are. So how about a “Green Diva”?

Seth and Jonathan are architects collectively creating amazing, innovative designs. Eight years of cooperative and exhilarated designs has landed them in Seattle, where Graypants, Inc. was invented from a passion to make a difference through stylized design.

Vinyl is one of the largest-volume plastics used in the United States. Some 15 billion pounds are produced annually. About 70 percent is made into durable building and construction products such as pipe, windows and siding. Some of the material is also used commonly as car upholstery. Once the auto has reached it's useful life, the material is discarded to the landfill.

USPayMail.com, a street address based online mailing community, with aims of eliminating the waste of the postal service, and spam associated with email.  Sign up free at www.USPayMail.com to help create change! 

A teenage prodigy has developed a new way to decompose plastic bags in just three months!

Electronic waste, or “e-waste”, is waste consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic appliance. It’s been estimated that a person keeps their laptop for just 3 years before buying a new one and cell phones are generally replaced and disposed of within just 24 months.