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If you were lucky enough to receive lots of Christmas Cards, then think about how you recycle them. Many supermarkets have started offering Christmas Card recycling schemes, which is a really easy way to recycle your cards. However, you can also cut up your Christmas cards to make your own gift tags!

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According to government estimates, over 300,000,000 pounds of single use drycleaner bags each year end up filling America’s landfills and killing our wild and marine life.

Now, just as smaller versions of reusable bags are working to eliminate this problem from grocers and retail stores, there is an alternative at drycleaners as well. The Green Garmento starts out as a hanging laundry bag then transforms into a duffel bag to deliver your dirty clothes to a drycleaner, then transforms into a hanging garment bag to protect your clean clothes for the trip home, and not a single plastic bag in sight!

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Part of the charm of holiday gift-giving is in the wrapping. But when I searched for eco-friendly paper and ribbon near my apartment, located in the center of Washington, DC, I couldn’t find any. It made no sense to give earth-friendly gifts wrapped with new materials.

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If you want to find a use for an empty tissue box, here’s a simple idea that will help you get more use from it. Just use the issue box as a plastic bag dispenser!

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If you end up with a stack of business cards for whatever reason, there’s another way you can reuse them before you recycle them.

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Recycling is all well and good, but if you can reuse something, that’s even better. Rehased Clothes is a clever concept where people can exchange fashionable and attractive clothes with other like-minded individuals.

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Have you gone to your local library lately? It is probably a wealth of information like mine. I think that local libraries are under-used.

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If you have loads of plastic bags, you could recycle them at the supermarket or use them as bin liners. However, if you want a more creative approach, there’s a great article on how to spin yarn and knit a bag from ordinary plastic grocery bags.

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All those spray bottles for household cleaners have tons of second-life uses. They can be used to water plants if you wash them out thoroughly first. Or, make your own homemade cleaners. Also, they make good kid’s squirt guns or cat training aids (cats hate water and this can be used to humanely discipline them).

Spray bottles can even be refilled with the original cleaning product by purchasing the concentrated version and mixing it with water.

Think twice before purchasing cleaning products. Using disposable wipes and dusters contribute significantly to our landfill waste. Despite their being soaked in chemicals, avoiding anything that is disposable can really help.

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Junk mail is a really irritating problem. In the UK, we get swamped with flyers about cable and satellite TV packages, pizza, indian, chinese and other takeaway menus, extortionately expensive education packages promising to “double our income”, supermarket special offers, and more. Admittedly, sometimes these offers are useful, most of the time they end up in the recycling bin.

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Do get those green netting sleeves from your grocery store with lettuce in them? Did you ever wonder how you could upcycle or recycle them? Well how about creating one of these cool green greenies?

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It’s incredibly easy to lower your carbon footprint by minimizing your use of disposable plastic and paper bags. It’s true that paper bags consumer more energy than plastic ones. Both are bad for the environment, and both can be avoided. Many grocery stores have reusable bags for sale, many less than a few pounds.

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Precycling is preventing waste before it happens, i.e. you’re being proactive about how much waste you’re going to produce. By reducing, reusing and buying products carefully, your can minimize the amount of waste you create as well as conserving resources and saving money.

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It’s back to school time! Back to school means back to the sometimes arduous chore of packing school lunches. Save yourself (and the environment) repeated trips to the store in search of plastic baggies, “snack size” convenience foods, and water bottles. Think zero-waste lunches instead. Have a variety of reusable storage containers on hand for sandwiches, fruits, and veggies.

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… and use a mug. It’s not much, but simply changing the way you have your morning coffee can have a real impact on the amount of waste you send to the landfill. It’s also carbon intensive to make styrofoam and paper cups.

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Recycling your old materials is only half the battle. However, it’s said that if you’re not buying recycled products, you’re not recycling. Most packaging is being created with some “post-consumer content” (recycled materials), but it can be as little as 1%.

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