A topic that came up in the Austin Zero Waste Lifestyle last week, and that I’ve actually gotten a lot of questions on in the past few months is prescription medicine bottles. So let’s discuss! Prescription medicine bottles, or what the City of Austin calls “pill bottle (empty)” are processed differently depending on where you…
I had the idea to do a little pilot program on my porch for some of the things I get asked about or that I end up taking for my neighbors. It was largely inspired by one particular neighbor who saves everything to talk with me about and how she can find a greener alternative…
Tis shopping season! Don’t forget to cut the stickers off your plastic bags. Trash the paper stickers on plastic, and recycle plastic bags from clothes, gifts, groceries, etc. at a plastic bag recycling station. I am going through a season of no buttons/bands digging in on my waist so I had to order elastic waist…
Pie pans can be recycled in your curbside carts. Make sure to clean and dry them. These are from chicken pot pies. One came in a paper bakery box and one was shrink wrapped. See Compost: Pie Box for how to process the box. Trash any plastic film or plastic windows from boxes. Put the…
This is my son’s mostly reused Halloween costume. He was a flying robot, his decision. – Ikea and moving boxes for the body (recyclable) – paint and brushes we received from the Girl Scouts from a cleaning up their room at my church. This amount of paint on paper can be recycled since we didn’t…
Running recycling and donations around town today. So much to clear out from church and neighbors. Goodwill got a trunk full of old adding machines that were falling apart from a storage shed at church. Goodwill is one of the largest electronics recyclers in Texas. Austin Creative reuse received a bunch of craft supplies from…
I just finished a Lot Salt and you can recycle this IF you take it apart, otherwise trash it if it’s intact. All three parts can be recycled once disassembled. Cardboard in your single stream recycling carts and the plastic and metal in Scrap Metal and Hard Plastics at your recycling center. Remember that if…
The Lego Classic Baseplate comes in recyclable paper now. Much thanks to my mom for letting me know and buying my son some grass and water. There was no tan sand. #paper #recyclepaper #alittlemoregreen #legos #target
We had a fundraiser garage sale for teacher appreciation at Wesley School last weekend and after the event there were a lot of books left over. Many of the books were very old, outdated teaching styles, or in poor condition so we ended up recycling many of them. The rest went to a Little Free…
Featured image from https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/handling-disposing-asbestos/ The Mesothelioma Center reached out to me recently and proposed I add information on proper handling of asbestos to my Where Do I Donate/Recycle? page. Turns out asbestos can be recycled, and it really needs a lot of proper handling to keep people safe. I wrote a short bit for my…