When it comes to looking at your growing green business, one area that you can make a big impact is packaging for your products / shipments. We’re going to take a look at how you can recycle more of your packaging. This applies to both the packaging that you send out as well as the [...]

As we all know, recycling is a roll that all of us should take part in.  By recycling, we’re able to reuse products, avoid using more natural resources to make products, and we can also save a lot of money over time.  Really, we can only benefit if we recycle, so why not do a [...]

You are probably about to decorate this years Christmas tree so we wanted to share our Top 10 list of ornaments made from recycled materials. Many of these awesome eco creations could be made at home from recyclables but each of the top 10 recycled Christmas tree ornaments shown below can be purchased online. Number [...]

Here we are at the start of the Holiday season, around our house, Thanksgiving plans are in full-swing! What can we do to get our holiday season off on a green foot? A lot! How about shopping for your Thanksgiving meal with two words in mind, organic and local. If you buy local, you enjoy [...]

I was recently invited to take a tour of a local Texas recycling center which is operated by the AbitibiBowater’s Recycling Division. Casey Gray is a “Business Recycling Consultant” and he gave me an amazing tour of the AbitibiBowater recycling center in Arlington, Texas. The division that Casey operates the EcoRewards Recycling program and they [...]

A brand new recycling center has just opened in McKinney, Texas and it promises to revolutionize recycling in the local area. The IESI McKinney recycling facility is called a Material Recovery Facility and is situated in McKinney near the Collin Airport. The Mckinney recycling facility will be the first privately funded single-stream LEED certified Material [...]

Inspiration for our articles comes from many different places and last week I found a great company that inspired me to logon and write; My inspiration came when I was “Googling” for recycled bags and purses, buried on the second page of my Google search was a name that just jumped out at me… UrthBags [...]

REBAR: A rod or bar used for reinforcement in concrete or asphalt pours. This bar is used for many other things as well. They’ve been used for Pavilions, stakes for vining plants, set up like a tee pee and string lights on them and they look like Christmas trees, art work and many other things. [...]

Potential is a funny thing. We all have it, the potential to go green. It’s just an idea, not real yet,  just a maybe. It can inspire you, make you rethink things, different ways to do something. What is true is that potential can never be taken away from you. There is always a possibility, [...]

We found this clever little eco-calculator (courtesy of WidgetBox.com). It allows you to quickly assess how many Trees, how much Wastewater, Solid Waste, CO2 and Energy you are saving by using recycled paper. You simply fill in the type of function like, office printing, the paper details, e.g. 50% recycled and off you go… Get [...]

I learned today that this week is a very special week for “The Grinch”, it marks his creator’s birthday, Dr Seuss would be celebrating his 105th birthday this week and we thought it only fitting that we take a look at The Grinch and how we can learn from his surprisingly Eco friendly way of [...]