After initially adding a second recycle bin to my home, it's amazing at the amount of recyclables a household of 4 people can generate. It's gotten to be an obsession to review the bottom or back of packages before I make the decision to place them in the bins.
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Kevin, I too am amazed at what our family of 4 accumulates for recycling every week. Our city trash bin has very little "garbage" in it for the weekly collection. But our plastic, metal and glass collection bags, and our paper and cardboard collection sacks are overflowing. Paper products account for most of it. Junk mail, cereal and other dry food boxes, school papers, tin can wrappers, newspapers and magazines -- you name it; if its paper-based, we recycle it. We also compost all vegetable and fruit scraps, along with coffee grinds (and filters) and egg shells. Once you get in the routine, recycling is no different than tossing things in the trash.
You're right. Our plastic recycling tubs are full of paper. Mostly junk mail. Every Wednesday, we get a ton of grocery store FSI's.
The Direct Marketing Association does have a Opt Out list.
See: https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/
I just did this a few weeks ago and haven't seen any reduction in junk mail yet.
Hi Kevin,
My company, ecosource Home & Garden, just participated in the Co-op America Green Business Conference in San Francisco and then the Green festival, which followed. They have a great model for how to do LARGE events ensuring that they are green/ carbon neutral. I'd be glad to hook you up with some resources if you need assistance. Good luck and I hope to see you at the expo!
(PS: "green is no longer a color, it is a lifestyle.")
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