💙💚 Austin Climate Action and Resilience believes every day should be Earth Day! From choosing sustainable transportation to supporting our natural spaces, their Earth Month Calendar can help you take daily actions throughout April to celebrate Mother Earth. 🌍🌎🌏 📆Visit the calendar: bit.ly/EarthMonthATX2026 #EarthMonth #calendar #activities #outside #earthdaybirthday
♻✂️📦Document Drop-off and Shredding at Circular Services: Austin Recycles is excited to share that Circular Services, one of our recycling contractors, will be offering FREE community drop-off services for documents and shredded material at the Austin location through April 31st! Anyone can stop by without making an appointment to drop off up to 5 boxes…
Celebrate Earth Day Friday, April 24 4 – 6 p.m. in the Southeast Greenway in Mueller Neighborhood. *THIS IS A GREAT EVENT FOR KIDS!* The park is large, hilly, has tunnels and swings! The Mueller Landscape Committee will host its 5th annual Plant a Pollinator Garden event next month in the Southeast Greenway near Tom…
My Buy Nothing Win this week is 2 pound hand weights! Here’s my post: Ask: 2 lb hand weights for rehab. I’m hoping to graduate from 1 to 2 quickly.🫳 Thanks! I have what my chiropractor calls tennis elbow but which I am calling zero waste elbow. It’s from moving furniture around for pickups to…
Yard Sign Recycling! Here’s what I shared with my neighbors as a City of Austin Zero Waste Block Leader: I will be accepting yard signs on my porch for the next few weeks or as long as I see the black collection containers at the RRDOC. Please separate the metal legs from the plastic signage.…
I’m wearing a 4ocean 100% organic cotton hoodie (there is a discount link below). Most sweatshirts are polyester (plastic) or they’re a cotton-poly blend so if you buy a new sweatshirt or a used/thrifted one be aware of that material content. Unfortunately most fundraisers are using cotton poly blends probably because they’re cheaper. Even environmental…
Today I posted the following on my social media platforms: Inquiry: what would you do with this vintage wedding dress? All the Angel Wings’ programs for Angel Dresses seems swamped with dresses and aren’t accepting them? Would you try to sell it to a vintage store, post on Buy Nothing, or just donate it to…
🛢🍳Cooking oil can be reused/discarded at your local household hazardous waste center (HHW) like Austin Recycles. Don’t forget to check our cabinets and pantry for expired oil you never used. At a recycling center it can be reused/recycled into biodiesel or safely disposed of. If the oil is still good, please consider donating it to…
Success! I sold the engine stand! We cleaning out a shed at school, I found an engine stand. No one at school knows why it’s there and we need to clear the space! I posted it online, than you AI for telling me what it was and about how much to sell it for, and…
I cover all the R’s here and Repair is one of them. This particular featured image is where a soap dispenser used to be. It was caked in soap underneath which was an exercise in acrobatics to fit under the sink and clean that! That was not a good spot for a garbage disposal! There…