Comments on: How to Reduce Waste at Home and Recycle http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/environment/how-to-reduce-waste-at-home-and-recycle/ Step By Step Directions and Tutorials on Everything Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: preppy http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/environment/how-to-reduce-waste-at-home-and-recycle//comment-page-1#comment-877 preppy Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:51:38 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=1108#comment-877 How to reduce waste at home and recycle? Take advantage of the internet. There are a number of "arts and crafts" recycling projects available on the internet that you can do at home. You can create a lot of papier mache craft projects from old newspapers, aside from figurines and sculptures, you can make piñatas, face masks, baskets, pen holders, and other house decors. Shoe boxes can also be reused as storage boxes just cover it up with pretty gift wrappers. These storage boxes can help keep your house organize and free of clutter. I've also heard that old newspapers are now being used in making compost. In gardening, a compost is something you add to make a soil more fertile. A compost needs carbon rich materials which is present in newspapers. How to reduce waste at home and recycle? Take advantage of the internet.

There are a number of “arts and crafts” recycling projects available on the internet that you can do at home. You can create a lot of papier mache craft projects from old newspapers, aside from figurines and sculptures, you can make piñatas, face masks, baskets, pen holders, and other house decors. Shoe boxes can also be reused as storage boxes just cover it up with pretty gift wrappers. These storage boxes can help keep your house organize and free of clutter.

I’ve also heard that old newspapers are now being used in making compost. In gardening, a compost is something you add to make a soil more fertile. A compost needs carbon rich materials which is present in newspapers.

]]> By: potrish78 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/environment/how-to-reduce-waste-at-home-and-recycle//comment-page-1#comment-824 potrish78 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:02:20 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=1108#comment-824 I heard about the freecycle group from a friend who’s living at Decatur, Illinois. It is a place wherein you are asked to post items that you no longer have a use of to be used and recycled by another user. In this way, reusable items are kept out of landfills. You can actually freecycle everything. From old mugs or figurines to CRT monitor or laptops, just about everything you may not have a use of that other people may. The great thing about this group is that they are giving away stuff for free. You can be a giver or a receiver. It doesn’t matter, as long as everyone is freecycling and keeping the environment safe and clean. I'm sure you can find a freecycle group near you. I heard about the freecycle group from a friend who’s living at Decatur, Illinois. It is a place wherein you are asked to post items that you no longer have a use of to be used and recycled by another user. In this way, reusable items are kept out of landfills. You can actually freecycle everything. From old mugs or figurines to CRT monitor or laptops, just about everything you may not have a use of that other people may. The great thing about this group is that they are giving away stuff for free. You can be a giver or a receiver. It doesn’t matter, as long as everyone is freecycling and keeping the environment safe and clean. I’m sure you can find a freecycle group near you.

]]> By: Brian http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/environment/how-to-reduce-waste-at-home-and-recycle//comment-page-1#comment-561 Brian Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:33:56 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=1108#comment-561 Waste disposal is a major concern and issue for all of us.Use of bio-degradable materials is a must if you want to conserve and lessen the waste in your home.Instead of plastic bags for groceries,just use paper bags instead.It can be recycled back at home or at a sanitation factory to be re-used again.Segregation of waste materials also helps a lot in waste disposal.Bio-degradable materials can be used or sold as fertilizers for plants while non-bio ones go to junk shops or factories to be recycled again into materials that will be used again.We must also have a concern and discipline in ourselves as well as the environment to have a clean and healthy living at home or outside. Waste disposal is a major concern and issue for all of us.Use of bio-degradable materials is a must if you want to conserve and lessen the waste in your home.Instead of plastic bags for groceries,just use paper bags instead.It can be recycled back at home or at a sanitation factory to be re-used again.Segregation of waste materials also helps a lot in waste disposal.Bio-degradable materials can be used or sold as fertilizers for plants while non-bio ones go to junk shops or factories to be recycled again into materials that will be used again.We must also have a concern and discipline in ourselves as well as the environment to have a clean and healthy living at home or outside.

]]> By: Ray http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/environment/how-to-reduce-waste-at-home-and-recycle//comment-page-1#comment-463 Ray Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:35:12 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=1108#comment-463 Non-Biodegradable Materials such as plastic, glass and other stuff can always be recycled and put into good use. All it needs is a creative mind and decorative stuff, and you can make something out of these "waste" products. Although recycling plastic bottles are not advisable, you can still use them in many ways, such as filling them up with water or sand and using them as a substitute for weights, not only have you helped save mother earth a century of trying to "digest" something that it cannot, you now also have something that you can use for exercising. There are many ways to recycle and as I've said, all it needs is some creative thinking and a positive outlook. Non-Biodegradable Materials such as plastic, glass and other stuff can always be recycled and put into good use. All it needs is a creative mind and decorative stuff, and you can make something out of these “waste” products. Although recycling plastic bottles are not advisable, you can still use them in many ways, such as filling them up with water or sand and using them as a substitute for weights, not only have you helped save mother earth a century of trying to “digest” something that it cannot, you now also have something that you can use for exercising. There are many ways to recycle and as I’ve said, all it needs is some creative thinking and a positive outlook.

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