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 Many of the books were very old, outdated teaching styles, or in poor condition so we ended up recycling many of them.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…
Drop off this household hazardous waste at the Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center, where it will be safely disposed of, recycled or reused. If brought to the Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center, oil must be in containers smaller than five-gallon capacity. [This is a one-gallon coconut oil bucket. Costco’s Kirkland salted peanuts come in a nice…
14 houses of recycling for the Austin Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center today. Foam takes up so much space. The trunk and car were full, just me and my son fit. There was even stuff under his feet. Also a few things for Safe Place. Styrofoam Plastic bags Hard plastics Scrap metal (including a child’s…
How to compost and recycle roast chicken – eat, share, refrigerate or freeze the meat – remove the elastic band on the legs & trash it – compost the fat, skin, bones, etc. If you aren’t going to freeze or use them for stock or soup. – soap, rinse, and dry the containers. Chicken crests…
Check your local guidelines on how to properly set out your recycling. You could be wasting money, time and resources bagging. In Austin, recycling should be loose in carts, not bagged. Bagged items like those pictures here will be pulled off the sorting lines and immediately trashed. The human sorters don’t have time to open…