Author: Waste Away Group
Today’s cold breakfast cereals, being packaged in both a plastic bag and a boxboard box, pose some questions regarding the recyclable nature of each.
Plastic bags are lightweight, strong, convenient alternatives to paper grocery bags. People seem to prefer them to paper bags because they have handles, are easy to store and reusable for many purposes.
Flexibility and resistance to condensation also make plastic bags a more attractive choice. Why would these popular helps to society be banned?
3M’s famous product, the Post-It Note, is commonly referred to with the genericized term, "sticky note". Originally, these were only sold as small yellow squares, but Post-it notes and related products are now available in a wide range of colors, shapes, and sizes.
What could be better on a Friday night than pizza and a movie? How should the pizza box be disposed of when we’re done when it?
Aluminum foil is a very convenient product for various things around the house, most of which is in the kitchen covering bowls and wrapping food. What should be done with aluminum foil after we’re finished with it?
Spiral notebooks, regardless of whether they have a plastic or metal spiral binding, are recyclable. The preferred way to recycle them, however, is to remove the spiral binding prior to putting the notebook itself into your recycling bin.
The first telephone book was published in February 1878. It was one page long and held fifty names. No numbers were listed, as the operator would connect you.
As New Year’s resolutions nip at our heels and spring approaches, many of us feel like getting rid of the clutter in our lives. The “urge to purge”, if you will.
Americans generally have an abundance, if not an overabundance, of “stuff”; clothing, bedding, household items and collectibles taking up precious space in our homes where storage comes at a premium.
The holidays mark days of family, friends, gift-giving and reflecting on all of the wonderful things we have in our lives. One of these things is an overabundance of food.
What is bubble wrap?
Bubble wrap is a plastic material contains evenly spaced, protruding air-filled pockets. The term “bubble wrap” is a generic trademark owned by Sealed Air Corporation, co-founded by Alfred Fielding in 1960. The air-filled plastic packaging that comes with such shipments as Amazon packages is the same principal and made from the same or similar material.