Why Recycle Glass?

http://1800recycling.com/2010/11/facts-glass-recycling/?goback=%2Egde_38832_member_35436993

Recycling Clothes

This awesome blog is following a lady who is making a new dress each day for $1, using recyled clothing and her own inguinity.

http://newdressaday.wordpress.com/

Recycled Bird Bath

Today we put up a birdbath made out of an old satellite dish that was otherwise destined for the dump. I got the idea from instructables

What's reat about the bird bath is that now there is a use for the old stump in our backyard.

Rewards for Recycling

Greenopolis Kiosks can be found at many Whole Foods locations around the country, as well as other locations.

Each time you use the greenopolis recycling kiosk, you receive a receipt indicating the number of items recycled and a deposit statement with a prize code redeemable for points at greenopolis.com.

Go to the link below to find your closest Greenopolis Kiosk
http://greenopolis.com

Cat Collars Made from Bottles

I saw these in my local Petco - cat collars made from recycled plastic bottles, which is cool in itself, but not only that - they are made with appealing designs AND come in a variety of colors! Go Petmate!

Recycle your Formal Dresses

Do you have a formal dress or 15 in your closet that you bought for that one occasion and have never worn again? Here's a way to free up some space in your closet and feel good about yourself.

Donate it to the Pricess Project - an SF organization that gives them to girls who might not otherwise be able to afford a formal dress for their prom.

The Princess Project holds its Giveaway Events each spring in preparation for prom season, usually in March or April.

Do you live elsewhere? Check out their site for other programs around the US and Canada.

http://www.princessproject.org

Green Waste Recycle Yard

These guys at Green Waste Recycle Yard take trees being cut down in the urban SF Bay Area and mill them into lumber flooring tabletops and much more...

http://www.greenwasterecycleyard.com/

Cardboard high chair

What an awesome idea from Australian company Belkiz, portable, recycled and recyclable.



thanks to:http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/06/portable-flatpak-high-chair-made-from-100-recycled-cardboard/

Top 8 Green Breweries

As selected by the Huffington Post:

New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, Colorado
The Fish Brewing Company, Olympia, Washington
The Alaskan Brewing Company, Juneau, Alaska
Full Sail Brewing Co. Hood River, Oregon
Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, New York
Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Sierra Nevada Brewery, Chico, California
Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

for more info on each brewery check out the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/top-8-green-us-breweries_n_256368.html

Vast Recycled Pavers

If you have a paver project coming up, like a deck or a driveway, you might want to look into these recycled, permeable pavers from VAST. 

Info from the site:

• Vast pavers are 95% recycled material 
• Can be cut with a regular wood saw
  
• Every 1,000 square feet of VAST Composite Pavers saves 500 scrap tires and 15,000 plastic bottles from landfills
• Manufactured with zero toxic or harmful emissions and zero waste
• 100% of all VAST Composite Pavers can be removed and recycled into new pavers
• Gets you leed points!
  

Use their building tool to see what your patio would look like with the different paver combos.

Old Bike Tires?

I need some ideas on how to reuse these old bike tires.

I can recycle them at any tire shop, but they seem like they might be useful for some other purpose. Any ideas?

Coroplast (Election Sign) Bike Panniers

find step-by-step instructions here:

http://kentsbike.blogspot.com/2007/01/tobys-coroplast-panniers-fenders.html

oyster bucket panniers

Using a standard container in the manufactured food industry, a #2 tub -- not recycle-friendly because of a strength additive required to give it rigidity. Cobbworks offers an alternative to the landfill.

http://www.cobbworks.com/

Recycled Dog Beds

Recycle your old linens and clothes into a new dog bed for your pooch. get a stuff sac from MollyMutt, and fill it with all those items goodwill won't take - stained undershirts, ripped towels, etc...

http://www.mollymutt.com/dog-duvets/stuff-sacks.html

Recycled Artwork

Like Etsy for Recycled Art, find or sell recycled artwork.

http://recycledartwork.ning.com/

Recycled Dog Collars

Who's That Dog recycles fancy leather belts to use as dog collars. there are two sections on the site collars and naked collars. I'm not really sure what the difference is other than the naked collars seem to be unpainted. They are a little pricey($60-65), especially for a recycled product, but are good quality.

http://www.whosthatdog.net/collars.cfm

Reynolds Wrap recycled alumninum foil

This is awesome, I was just useing some alumninum foil and wondered if there was a recycled option, then I saw a commercials for this!

Reynolds Wrap Foil from 100% Recycled Aluminum. The website says it is made from a combination of pre and post consumer waste, but does not give percentages.

The packaging and core are also recycled - made from 100% recovered paper ( this also does not specify post-consumer waste) and the inks used on the product packaging are water-based.

For Earth Day Reynolds is offering a Rebate on the new recycled foil!

Go here on Earth Day http://www.reynoldsrecycled.com to get a rebate coupon for a free roll.

Awesome Companies...

Terracycle really goes the extra step to make sure they create products that are completely made of waste. You can even go to heir site and send in items to be recycled like drink packets (Capri Sun style), and cookie and chip wrappers...

Here's just one product of many where they have found ways of using non-recyclable items like wax paper (milk cartons, etc..)

http://www.terracycle.net/

Recycling plastic bags - small things

I watched a friend of mine's dogs for a few days, and she provided their food rationed out in plastic ziplock bags. When It was her turn to watch my dog, I reused those baggies to provide my dog's food.

Mercury thermometers and medicine disopsal

if you're in the SF Bay area, go to this site to find out what to do with your old medicines and mercury thermometers... http://baywise.org/