Recycle Your Day, America + Green Mom’s Carnival!
November 14, 2009 by La Mama Naturale'
Filed under eco-friendly, recycling
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Ever wonder where the title Recycle Your Day came from? To make a long story short, in my opinion, recycling is one of the easiest forms to contribute in helping to save the planet and within our day we do what’s necessary to improve the planet from recycling to wearing your jeans over and over again. It all happens within our day and starts all over again the next. So, there you have it; the root of my reasoning in a nut shell.
Tomorrow is America Recycles Day. Do you have any plans to celebrate? Last year our local bowling alley had a recycling drive but this year it seems to be quiet. Nothing has been coordinated and of course by the time I checked in it was too late to plan anything. I don’t think I’m going to let this happen again next year. November 15th is actually a pretty significant day for me- not only is it America Recycle’s Day, but it’s also my parent’s 34th anniversary and my sister’s 33rd birthday too!
Do You Organize Your Recyclables?
September 3, 2009 by La Mama Naturale'
Filed under green
I seem to go around daily collecting odds and ends that belong in the recyclables pile. I call it a pile because I don’t have much of an organized system. We have a spot in our home that we have claimed as the “recycling center” and all of recyclables manage to make it there. Sometimes it’s tidy and other times it’s a mess.
We started out having two trash cans that we’d place plastic and aluminum into. Within the last 6 mos. my husband stopped drinking soda so it eliminated much of our aluminum waste. Not to mention, since we’ve kicked the water bottle habit we rarely have a water bottle. Overall, the waste baskets hardly get used in that manner anymore. We still end up with plastic crap to recycle…such a milk jugs and food containers and other misc. plastic recyclables though. Before, they were separate, one would fill up with water bottles and the other with cans. It’s a heap of miscellaneous recyclables now.
A lot times I’ll grab a paper bag from a forgotten B.Y.O.B. trip and fill it with recyclables throughout the week then toss it directly into the city recycling bin. It’s amazing to me how many recyclables there are at the end of the week. Our recycle bin fills up before the regular trash can that what I call amazing. It always feels so good to empty the recyclables container because I know it’s going to be re purposed in some way.
