Tens of millions of cellular telephones are put away in storage every year, never to be used again. Cell phones can be useful to others and contain toxic materials. So they should be recycled or reuse...

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, if every United States home replaced one roll of 500-sheet virgin-fiber toilet tissue with a 100 percent recycled one, 423,900 trees would be saved....

Instead of purchasing the green plastic easter grass this year, try using shredded office paper. You can add a page or two of shredded colored paper to add some color. After you are finished with th...

After drinking a cup of tea, you can reuse the tea leaves in various places around the house. First, dry the tea leaves by placing the leaves into a large strainer or colander. Press out as much m...

After drinking tea, you can reuse the leaves to feed your garden plants--green tea is high in nitrogen--and they will even ward off pests and insects. Tea leaves also can be used as a deodorizer. ...

What to do with those pairs of stinky, worn out sneakers? Why reycle them of course! There are several options for donating old sneakers. There are a number of charities that send used sneakers t...

Instead of going out to buy expensive bookends, look around your house for items that are heavy and attractive. Here are 10 ideas: 1. Mason jars filled with beads, shells, marbles, or colored sand...

Freecycling is a grassroots, local, web-based concept that helps you give things away that you don’t need or want to people who do. This keeps mountains of unwanted stuff out of the garbage heap and f...

There are many kinds of plastic, each made with a different blend of chemicals, some of which are toxic. Some of the chemicals cannot mix with others, and if the wrong kinds of plastics are blended t...

Americans use 100 billion aluminum cans per year, about half of global consumption. Only 40 percent of those cans were recycled in 2004 which means that 810,000 tons of aluminum were landfilled. If ...

If people recycled 70 percent of the bottles they used for one year, greenhouse gases could be reduced by 20,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent. It would also save the equivalent of 600,000 barrels...

There are many places such as opticians or clubs which collect eyeglasses for reuse. Collected eyeglasses are cleaned and repaired for reuse. Available glasses are cataloged in a computer database, an...

Most small, round "button cell" type batteries contain mercury, silver, cadmium, lithium and other heavy metals which leak in landfills and can enter the water table. They are even worse whe...

Automotive batteries contain lead which is both toxic and valuable; in the United States, over 95% of all automotive batteries are recovered and recycled. Any place that sells batteries will take them...

Packing peanuts do not have much recycling potential, but they can be reused. You could offer them on your local Freecycle list. Many packing, shipping and moving stores will take used peanuts. Pack ...