Best Green Living

There are a growing number of options available to you for getting rid of unwanted items.

You can sell them on sites like eBay or have your own yardsale. 
You can donate to charities like GoodWill.
You can give items away to needy friends and family
You can haul them to the dump or the recycler.

Each of these options [...]

It is the little things that we think the least about.  But it is sometimes the little things that can hurt the most. 
Mobile phones and other mobile devices (pagers, PDAs) present a growing threat to the environment. As of 2007, there are more than 750 million mobile phones waiting to be recycled in the US; [...]

It is great that you recycle your used paper products.  But how many of those items could you use again before you recycle them?
So you like your paper shopping bags?  Be sure to re-use them as trach can liners, lunch bags, bags to take old clothes to GoodWill, etc.
Plastic shopping bags often can be returned to [...]

It is almost inconceivable how much garbage people produce every year, an average of 1,460 pounds per person.  That’s 200 million tons of garbage total.  Building a new home can generate almost thirteen tons of waste.  Big and small businesses add to that total.
We go to great effort to cart the bulk of the trash [...]

My wife and I were riding our bikes around the local farmland the other day.  We noticed that someone had tossed out their old computer on the side of the road.  We were not the only one who noticed.  A local model plane enthusiast also noticed the trash.  As we were discussing the lack of [...]