Category: Recyling Works
Potato chips are almost the number one snack food among Americans - all flavors and types. Frito Lay sells about $12 million worth of potato chips each year. If you break that down into about $3 per bag, that equals about 4 million bags sold per year.
Most garden hoses are typically made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride), or polyurethane, synthetic rubber, nylon, or soft plastic and reinforced with an internal web of fibers. As a result of these materials, garden hoses are flexible and their smooth exterior facilitates pulling them past trees, posts and other obstacles.
Every day in the United States there are thousands of events that create an enormous amount of waste. Zero Waste programs targets this waste by reducing packaging, avoiding single-serve items, and providing compostable ware and compost service to all event goers.
Candy is used as a gift, a reward, an incentive, and a treat. Seasonal candy sales accounted for only $57 million in the United States in 2013, which has seen a dramatic jump since then. The Easter bunny can be thanked for the highest share of these sales, with the largest percent of seasonal candy being sold at Easter.
Shredded paper is recyclable in any recycling process that accepts paper in their recycling bins. There are, however, a few things we need to keep in mind as we put shredded paper into our recycling.
Many of us take our trash and recycling out the night before it will be picked up to ensure that we don’t forget to take it out. But if it’s raining, does the rain affect the quality of recycling or its ability to be recycled? Unfortunately, the answer for some commodities is “yes”.
We recycle cardboard and plastics but what do we do with the hybrid versions that contain both?
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.