Update from Austin Resource Recovery staff December 2021: The white and blue Amazon bubble mailer is not accepted at the Austin Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center. It has too much glue attaching the inside clear bubble wrap to the white and blue outside. ARR directed these to the HEB plastic bag stations for recycling. Don’t…
Bread bags that are plastic can be recycled at a plastic bag drop off station like at your grocery store, Target or Walmart. Plastic bags and film that you can poke a finger through can be recycled at this stations. That is clear and opaque soft plastic bags and film. Remove any food, liquid, sticky…
Holiday reminder: Paper plates are compostable. Starbucks and beverage cups are mostly trash, though you can recycle the paper sleeve and plastic lid on hot beverages. Most paper plates are going to be paper only and not coated in plastic. If it’s too shiny or thick then you might want to pass on the paper…
If your present is digital, it hasn’t shipped yet, it’s a placeholder for an experience, etc. creating a card in a box is a fun experience that allows the gift recipient to still participate in a gift opening experience, without having a tangible item necessarily in place. This is a great placeholder if someone is…
I love this reuse idea for ribbons and holiday cards. It’s a great way to display cards, it doesn’t affect the card, and it’s a colorful way to decorate my curtain area in the dining room. The hook on the curtain rod is one I had in my toolbox. You can easily find these “S”…
I’ve shared before on how to think of different ways to use picture frames. In a previous post I talked about how I turned a standard picture frame purchased at the craft store into a white board/dry erase board. The need for the white board went away. How my husband was brainstorming changed so the…
My 100 Day Dress Challenge is finished. My 100 days were August 19 – November 27, 2021. It was easier than I expected. No mooning, playground or underwear incidents. I was not as creative as I expected. I did not bust out all my jewelry or change much daily. The dress held up way better…
Today marks my 56 day of the 100 Day Dress Challenge. It’s been going well despite the Texas heat. I have missed three (3) days of photos to date, you are allowed to miss up to five (5). I forgot the first time, I had a migraine attack the second (migraines wipe me out for…
If you’ve never heard of pill pack, blister pack, or bubble packs before that’s okay. I had to look up what they were called so I could write about them. These are the packets that many pills come in. Some of them seem like straight metal/aluminum. Some are an obvious mix of a metal and…
I want to share a shout-out to my neighbors for their efforts and offer some ideas for ways you can help be a little more green/zero waste. I’m sharing the results of several collections my neighborhood all did over the last couple of weeks: They provided three big boxes of paper grocery bags for reuse…