Reduce: reduce energy use and reduce bird injuries or death Featured image: Photo: NASA Earth Observatory – insight on human activity at night Providing Safe Passage for Nocturnal Migrants Every year, billions of birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall, the majority of them flying at night, navigating with the night sky.…
AUSTIN, TEXAS GREEN BUSINESSES GET LISTED FOR FREE Austin Resource Recovery is looking for thrift, rental, repair businesses and donation agencies to be included in the Austin Reuse Directory. If you have a business of your own in the local reuse economy, it can be included among more than 400 others and appear in search…
Children’s museums, after school programs, activity groups, church classes, etc. can be a wonderful way to donate items you no longer need which may be landfilled, and they very much would appreciate. Thinkery, Austin’s children’s museum, is always looking for item donations for their crafts and projects. Many of the items are small and can…
Target’s car seat trade-in for April/Earth Month is happening next week. The event starts Sunday April 16 – Saturday April 29, 2023. Take any old car seat that is expired or damaged to your local participating Target to be recycled and get a 20% off coupon for a new car seat, stroller or select baby…
Recycling Reminder : Lots of different plastic bags and plastic film can be recycled at your local grocery store like HEB, Central Market, Home Depot, Target and Walmart. Recycling stations are usually at the entrance of a store or just inside. Plastic bags cannot be recycled in the blue recycling carts and actually jam up…
We just took our pantry clean out over to a partner of the Central Texas Food Bank. We stock up on pantry items for winter storms and then donate those items to the food bank after winter. After my colonoscopy and endoscopy in January there was still some food left that I am no longer…
Donating or recycling shoes? Zip tie, rubber band, or use the laces to keep the pair together. In sorting large bales of shoes, the partner shoe may not always be found if separated and it’s more likely the shoe will recycled at that stage rather than reused/resold and then later recycled. There are markets for…
“Don’t store old phones long-term in your home or office. Unused cell phones and batteries can become dangerous if exposed to temperature extremes or moisture, potentially exposing you and others to harmful substances. Be safe and take your old phone directly to a local recycler” or trade it in as soon as you are able.…
I think a reusable water bottle/cup is the first and easiest greener and zero waste tip to implement. As long as you live somewhere where there is good water quality, or water fountains and water bottle refill stations, this is easy to do. If you don’t have good water quality, and you can check reports…
Batteries power our lives every day. They also become dangerous when they’re not recycled right. If something lights up, moves on its own or makes a sound, it has a battery and should not go in your carts. Batteries can catch fire or explode in your cart, dumpster or the back of trash and recycling…